Checkmk Appliance - Self Monitoring?

[DaveCheck (Dave)]

Hi All,

I’m just testing out the Checkmk Enterprise edition via the OVF virtual appliance.

I’ve got a site built and a few dummy hosts monitored with rules etc.

I’m a little confused when I look at the “CheckMK Dashboard” as it’s empty - I expected to see the local CheckMK instance list there - what should be there and if the local host how do I add it?

I also see on the main dashboard none of the graphs are populated, instead the message:

" As soon as you add your Checkmk server to the monitoring, a graph showing the history of your host problems will appear here. Please refer to the Checkmk user guide for more details."

is displayed- however the guide linked doesn’t read well to me - I have a single site but I want to display any host problems within this dashboard widget - why isn’t it looking at it’s own hosts?

If that’s all wrong, how should I monitor the vAppliance CheckMK host itself (to report on storage, memory and cpu usage for the most part I guess)?

And how should I update the main dashboard “problems” graph for hosts managed within the local checkmk site?

Best,

Dave

[ChristianM (Christian Michaelski)]

Hi.

You need to create a host within your instance and run it against local host. The agent is installed in the appliance.

RG, Christian

[DaveCheck (Dave)]

Thanks Christian,

I thought that but when I create a host named “localhost” within CheckMK and select any of the "Agent enabled " connection options they all fail when I run the connection tests, and return zero services:

[rprengel (Ralf Prengel)]

Hallo,
not sure but isn t there an option in the appliance management ?
Ralf

[DaveCheck (Dave)]

Thank you!

Yes indeed - like a complete newb I’d restricted the vAppliance Agent comms to a different IP - all sorted now thanks!