Nagios script for VMware memory balloon size

Submitted by mig5 on

Couldn't find a Nagios plugin for checking the VMware 'memory balloon' percentage, after observing a server that due to hypervisor issues was ballooning too much. For more on that subject, you can read about it here.

So here's a script to do it.

#!/bin/bash

usage() {
cat << EOF
usage: $0 OPTIONS

This script checks the VMware memory balloon and alerts if it is over
an expected threshold.

Designed for use with Nagios.

OPTIONS:
   -w   Warning percentage, in MB (default: 20)
   -c   Critical percentage, in MB (default: 50)
   -h   This help message
EOF
}

# Defaults
STATUS_OK=0
STATUS_WARNING=1
STATUS_CRITICAL=2
STATUS_UNKNOWN=3
WARNING=20
CRITICAL=50

while getopts "w:c:h" OPTION
do
  case $OPTION in
    w)
      WARNING=$OPTARG
      ;;
    c)
      CRITICAL=$OPTARG
      ;;
    ?)
      usage
      exit
      ;;
  esac
done

TOTAL_MEM=$(free -m | awk '/^Mem:/{print $2}')

# Check for the vmware-toolbox-cmd command
if [ ! -x /usr/bin/vmware-toolbox-cmd ]; then
  echo "UNKNOWN: vmware-toolbox-cmd binary not found!"
  exit $STATUS_UNKNOWN
else

  # Check the balloon
  VMWARE_CHECK=$(vmware-toolbox-cmd stat balloon | awk {'print $1'})
 
  # now Check the percentage compared to total ram
  PERCENT=$((100*$VMWARE_CHECK/$TOTAL_MEM))

  # Is it lower than the warning threshold if so we are OK
  if [ $PERCENT -lt $WARNING ]; then
    echo "OK: VMware memory ballooning is $PERCENT%"
    exit $STATUS_OK
  elif [ $PERCENT -gt $CRITICAL ]; then
    echo "CRITICAL: VMware memory ballooning is $PERCENT%"
    exit $STATUS_CRITICAL
  else
    echo "WARNING: VMware memory ballooning is $PERCENT%"
    exit $STATUS_WARNING
  fi
fi

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