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jerry84
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Monitoring desktops VMware View

To monitor our VMware View environment I would like to check if all desktops are available and ready every morning, and feed this data to Nagios for example.

Does anybody have a setup like this already? Or have any ideas how to do this?

I guess VMware View PowerCLI would be an option to get some information..

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Rorus
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The inbuilt PowerCLI commands are very lacking, however if you check out http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=2897 there are some advanced cmdlets that you may be able to use.

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eeg3
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You could possibly write something to scan the database and feed that to Nagios.

There is also a fling that may be beneficial: Horizon View Event Notifier.

Blog: http://blog.eeg3.net
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jerry84
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Thanks for the answers.

I'm looking what metrics/information would be useful to monitor, and base my alert on.

Does someone have any suggestions?

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six4rm
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Hi,

I posted about monitoring View with Nagios a little while ago, I was running View 4.6 at the time.

https://communities.vmware.com/message/2195351

The Unofficial Advanced PowerShell cmdlets did exactly what I needed. Unfortunately though they don't work with View 5.x, so I've not been able to monitor the environment as effectively since upgrading.

I'm still looking for a way to pull each desktop state via PowerShell.

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iefke
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Monitoring a VMware Horizon View environment is very limited with the current PowerCLI cmdlets. Not every customer can afford vCenter Operations Manager for View to monitor the environment. I hope VMware will soon enhance the PowerCLI cmdlets for View so that monitoring is getting easier.

Blog: http://www.ivobeerens.nl
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