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PRTG vmware 6.0.

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I want to check my vSphere 6.0 and all my ESX 6.0 servers with PRTG.

So i installed the sensor with "root" on my ESX hosts. But when i check my esx host in my vSphere client, I see every second a PRTG message. So my complete log is filled with PRTG warning on my ESX host,

The delay is set on 60 seconds.

esxi prtg vmware

Created on Apr 20, 2015 8:14:50 AM



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Some messages from the ESX log : ;

User [email protected] logged out (login time: 20-4-2015 13:42:54, number of API invocations: 0, user agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol; PRTG)) info 20-4-2015 13:42:55 esx1.x.nl root

User [email protected] logged in as Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol; PRTG) info 20-4-2015 13:42:54 esx1.x.nl root

Created on Apr 20, 2015 11:51:05 AM



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User [email protected] logged out (login time: 20-4-2015 13:42:54, number of API invocations: 0, user agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol; PRTG)) info 20-4-2015 13:42:55 esx1.x.nl root

User [email protected] logged in as Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol; PRTG) info 20-4-2015 13:42:54 esx1.x.nl root

User [email protected] logged out (login time: 20-4-2015 13:37:59, number of API invocations: 0, user agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol; PRTG)) info 20-4-2015 13:37:59 esx1.x.nl root

User [email protected] logged in as Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client Protocol; PRTG) info 20-4-2015 13:37:53 esx1.x.nl root

Created on Apr 20, 2015 12:15:03 PM



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We do have VMware Sensors currently in beta phase, which use session pooling to write significantly less log entries. If you'd like to participate in this beta test, please get in touch with us with an email to [email protected]

Created on Apr 20, 2015 1:24:11 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Is it still in beta? We have version 15.3.18.3616+ installed. When will we be able to check vSphere 6.0 and ESX 6.0 servers with PRTG?

Created on Sep 9, 2015 12:16:10 PM



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Monitoring of vSphere 6.0 is already possible (though with the consequence of the log entries). We will release a new version of the VMware Sensors with version 15.x.19 of PRTG, which will use a session pooling and thus improve the situation with the log entries.

Created on Sep 10, 2015 9:45:29 AM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Update of this issue:

Update 15.3.19 (September 2015) did implement the new VMware (SOAP) sensor:

"The VMware Datastore (SOAP) sensor monitors the disk usage of a VMware data store. This sensor type supersedes the outdated SSH VMWare ESX(i) Disk sensor. The VMware (SOAP) sensors now also support session pooling. You can define session pooling in the device settings."

- see https://www.paessler.com/prtg/history/stable

Created on Oct 19, 2015 8:36:36 AM




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