check_vsphere
summary
Existing Perl SDK plugins break on new vSphere because VMware deprecated the Perl and other SDKs, so a new plugin is written in Python SDK and available as an alpha release with planned pip distribution. It implements checks for snapshots, CD‑ROM/floppy attachments, maintenance state and temperature sensors and exposes ~600 performance counters via a new perf command. It fixes a longstanding per‑instance bug where using "" returned only the first disk so most disks were ignored, and reimplements find_entity_views* logic with property collector and traversal specs to avoid thousands of HTTP calls.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:25Plugin overview and setup
- 3:10Available command checks
- 8:43Performance metrics deep dive
- 14:49Vsphere API challenges
- 20:51Q&A or summary
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