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Virtual Machine under ESX: Guest Tools Version Status

Included in	All Checkmk editions
Source Code License	Open Source
Supported Agents	vSphere

For a virtual machine running on ESX this check reports the guest tools version status (queried from vsphere agent)

This check returns:

OK if the guest tools version is up-to-date

WARN if the guest tools need an upgrade or are not managed by VMware

CRIT if there is no heartbeat. Guest operating system may have stopped responding.

The actual state of this check can be modified by parameters

Discovery

One service is created for each Virtual Machine.