collectd-Vcenter

This is a python plugin for collecting Vcenter statistics.

It requires the python plugin in collectd in order to gather data.

The script collect the following metrics:

• Hosts CPU usage
• Hosts Memory usage
• Hosts Healthstatus
• VMs count (Running, stopped, total)
• Datastores space usage

Hosts & VMs count metrics are aggregated at hosts, cluster, datacenter & zone level

Requirements

collectd
collectd must have the Python plugin installed. See (http://collectd.org/documentation/manpages/collectd-python.5.shtml)

pysphere
pyshere library must be installed. See (https://code.google.com/p/pysphere/)

Example

<LoadPlugin python>
    Globals true
</LoadPlugin>

<Plugin python>
    # vcenter.py is at /opt/collectd/lib/collectd/python
    ModulePath "/usr/lib64/collectd/"
    Import vcenter
    <Module vcenter>
            Username "Vcenter read rights username here"
            Vcenter "myvcenter1 myvcenter2"
            Password "Vcenter user password here"
            Verbose false
    </Module>
</Plugin>

Credits

In production use at exoscale and licensed under the MIT License.