How to Use the vSphere Wizard in Nagios XI

vSphere is a virtualization platform that lets you run multiple operating systems and applications as virtual machine guests running on physical ESXi server hosts. Nagios XI provides robust monitoring and alerting capabilities for both hosts and guests.

Documentation

You can refer to this documentation for full details on initial setup requirements, and on using the vSphere wizard. Note that the plugin and wizard were updated and improved in Nagios XI 2026R1.2, so be sure to use the correct document for your version of Nagios XI.

Nagios XI 2026R1.2+

Monitoring vSphere with Nagios XI 2026

Nagios XI 2024 and Early 2026

Monitoring vSphere with Nagios XI 2024