Azure Virtual Machine

Pack Assets

Templates

The Centreon Monitoring Connector Azure Virtual Machine brings a host template:

Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-custom

It brings the following service templates:

Service Alias	Service Template	Service Description	Default
Cpu-Credit	Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Cpu-Credit-Api	Check CPU credits usage
Cpu-Usage	Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Cpu-Usage-Api	Check CPU usage	X
Diskio	Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Diskio-Api	Check disks	X
Health	Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Health-Api	Check virtual machine state	X
Memory	Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Memory-Api	Check memory usage	X
Network	Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Network-Api	Check network usage	X
Vm-Sizes-Global	Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Vm-Sizes-Global-Api	Check vitual machines types count

Discovery rules

The Centreon Monitoring Connector Azure Virtual Machine includes a Host Discovery provider to automatically discover the Azure instances of a given subscription and add them to the Centreon configuration. This provider is named Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine:

This discovery feature is only compatible with the api custom mode. azcli is not supported.

More information about discovering hosts automatically is available on the dedicated page.

Collected metrics & status

Metric Name	Unit
azvm.cpu.credits.consumed.count
azvm.cpu.credits.remaining.count
azvm.cpu.utilization.percentage	%

Metric Name	Unit
azvm.disk.read.bytes	B
azvm.disk.read.persecond
azvm.disk.write.bytes	B
azvm.disk.write.persecond

Status Name	Description
status	Current operational status
summary	Last related status message

Metric Name	Unit
azvm.memory.available.bytes	B

Metric Name	Unit
azvm.network.in.bytes	B
azvm.network.out.bytes	B

Prerequisites

Please find all the prerequisites needed for Centreon to get information from Azure on the dedicated page.

Setup

Online License
Offline License

Install the package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor Azure Virtual Machine resources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Api

On the Centreon web interface, on page Configuration > Monitoring Connector Manager, install the Azure Virtual Machine Centreon Monitoring Connector.

Install the package on every Centreon poller expected to monitor Azure Virtual Machine resources:

yum install centreon-plugin-Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-Api

Install the Azure Virtual Machine Centreon Monitoring Connector RPM on the Centreon central server:

yum install centreon-pack-cloud-azure-compute-virtualmachine

On the Centreon web interface, on page Configuration > Monitoring Connector Manager, install the Azure Virtual Machine Centreon Monitoring Connector.

Configuration

Host

Log into Centreon and add a new host through Configuration > Hosts.
In the IP Address/DNS field, set the following IP address: 127.0.0.1.
Aplly the Cloud-Azure-Compute-VirtualMachine-custom template to the host.
Once the template is applied, fill in the corresponding macros. Some macros are mandatory. These mandatory macros differ depending on the custom mode used.

Two methods can be used to set the macros:

Full ID of the Resource (/subscriptions/<subscription_id>/resourceGroups/<resourcegroup_id>/providers/XXXXX/XXXXX/<resource_name>) in AZURERESOURCE

Resource name in the AZURERESOURCE macro, and resource group name in the AZURERESOURCEGROUP macro.

Azure Monitor API
Azure AZ CLI

Mandatory	Macro	Description
x	AZUREAPICUSTOMMODE	Custom mode api
x	AZURECLIENTID	Client ID
x	AZURECLIENTSECRET	Client secret
x	AZURERESOURCE	ID or name of the Azure Virtual Machine resource
	AZURERESOURCEGROUP	Resource group name if resource name is used
x	AZURESUBSCRIPTION	Subscription ID
x	AZURETENANT	Tenant ID

Mandatory	Macro	Description
x	AZURECLICUSTOMMODE	Custom mode azcli
x	AZURERESOURCE	ID or name of the Azure Virtual Machine resource
x	AZURERESOURCEGROUP	Resource group name if resource name is used
x	AZURESUBSCRIPTION	Subscription ID

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?

Once the plugin is installed, log into your Centreon poller's CLI using the centreon-engine user account (su - centreon-engine) and test the plugin by running the following command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_azure_compute_virtualmachine_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::azure::compute::virtualmachine::plugin \
    --mode=health \
    --custommode='api' \
    --resource='VM001ABCD' \
    --resource-group='RSG1234' \
    --subscription='xxxxxxxxx' \
    --tenant='xxxxxxxxx' \
    --client-id='xxxxxxxxx' \
    --client-secret='xxxxxxxxx' \
    --proxyurl='' \
    --ok-status='%\{status\} =~ /^Available$/' \
    --warning-status='' \
    --critical-status='%\{status\} =~ /^Unavailable$/' \
    --unknown-status='%\{status\} =~ /^Unknown$/' \
    --api-version=2017-07-01\

The expected command output is shown below:

OK: Status: '%s', Summary: '%s'|

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --help parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_azure_compute_virtualmachine_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::azure::compute::virtualmachine::plugin \
    --mode=health \
    --help

All available modes can be displayed by adding the --list-mode parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins//centreon_azure_compute_virtualmachine_api.pl \
    --plugin=cloud::azure::compute::virtualmachine::plugin \
    --list-mode

Troubleshooting

Please find the troubleshooting documentation for the API-based plugins in this chapter.

Pack Assets​

Templates​

Discovery rules​

Collected metrics & status​

Prerequisites​

Setup​

Configuration​

Host​

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?​

Troubleshooting​