snapshots

Description

This command checks VirtualMachine snapshots by age or count.

Options

Besides the general options this command supports the following options:

options description
--mode {age,count} (required) thresholds checked against the age of a snapshot or against the count of the snapshots by VirtualMachine
--allowed REGEX (optional) REGEX is checked against <name of VirtualMachine>;<name of snapshot>, if REGEX doesn’t match the snapshot is ignored
--banned REGEX (optional) REGEX is checked against <name of VirtualMachine>;<name of snapshot>, if REGEX does match the snapshot is ignored
--critical CRITICAL critical threshold, see common options
--warning WARNING warning threshold, see common options

Examples

# notify if snapshots are too old
check_vsphere snapshots -nossl \
  -s vcenter.example.com \
  -u naemon@vsphere.local \
  --mode age \
  --warning 150 \
  --critical 180 \