I'm using VMware Virtual Machine sensors to monitor the virtual servers on our ESXi's. How can I monitor free disk space on my virtual servers using these sensors? The only channels I could find are for disk activity, none for free space.
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Hello,
to see the free disk space inside a VM it's necessary to add the VM as a device and then add an according sensor (for example WMI Disk Space if it's a Windows VM), because the ESX(i) might not always know the file-format of the VM and therefor might not be able to even say anything about the usage.
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Created on Jun 24, 2011 3:01:01 PM by
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I'm very much afraid this is still the same. No changes here. If you need to monitor free disk space in a VM, it is necessary to add the VM as a device in PRTG and then monitor it from the "inside" with WMI, SSH, SNMP, according to the type of OS running on it.
Created on Aug 2, 2017 7:21:42 AM by
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Using a device template is a very good idea. You can combine it with an Auto-Discovery on a list of IPs / hostnames. That would save you creating each device one by one manually.
Created on Aug 2, 2017 11:00:16 AM by
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No you don't need Remote Probes in each VM/Container. If they respond to normal SNMP/WMI/etc. queries from a Probe somewhere in the network, it will just work fine without Remote Probes inside each "machine".
Created on Oct 18, 2018 7:49:03 AM by
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