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Counter Metricname instead of MetricInstance?

Open IsamuD opened this issue 10 years ago • 2 comments

Hi David,

Would it be possible to have an option to query for a counter by METRICNAME instead of METRICINSTANCE? For example, it's a bit difficult to remember that datastore uuid "52439c56-1b8dfea7-d162-002590980c38" is "datastore-08" when viewing it in Zabbix/VCenter.

Thanks! Isamu

IsamuD avatar Mar 10 '15 19:03 IsamuD

Hi, This is not trivial as the VMWare SDK only exposes instance IDs when querying a counter. Most of the time, they are human readable (vmnic1, cpu0, etc) but for datastores it shows the datastore uuid. I'll think about it when I have time. David

dav3860 avatar Mar 12 '15 22:03 dav3860

Hello David,

Thank you for looking into this.

Isamu

IsamuD avatar Mar 17 '15 16:03 IsamuD