From 2e4d75057603bc17d1e65fd62f7052412fd20978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sthen Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:39:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ESXi 5.0u1 responds *really* slowly to hardware status requests, this is a vmware bug, until they get round to fixing it let's at least document which icinga/nagios variable you need to bump as a workaround. ok merdely@ --- net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/Makefile | 3 ++- net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/pkg/DESCR | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/Makefile b/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/Makefile index 6d99ffd5357..d2937ddffe2 100644 --- a/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/Makefile +++ b/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/Makefile @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ -# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.3 2012/05/01 15:32:20 merdely Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2012/07/05 14:39:10 sthen Exp $ PKG_ARCH = * COMMENT = Nagios plugin to the status of ESX/i hardware V = 20120501 +REVISION = 0 DISTNAME = check_esxi_hardware.py.$V PKGNAME = check_esxi_hardware-$V CATEGORIES = net diff --git a/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/pkg/DESCR b/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/pkg/DESCR index 8f4945d455b..5146adadda8 100644 --- a/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/pkg/DESCR +++ b/net/nagios/check_esxi_hardware/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ This script is a Nagios plugin to monitor the hardware of ESX and ESXi servers. It can also be used as standalone script to check the hardware - Nagios isn't necessary to run it. + +N.B. ESXi 5.0u1 hosts respond very slowly to hardware status queries +(http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2016538), as a workaround you may increase the +service_check_timeout in Nagios or Icinga.