title: VMware vCenter Server Appliance: Appliance Health Areas
agents: vcsa_health
catalog: app/vmware
license: GPL-2.0-only
distribution: check_mk
description:
 This check monitors the built-in appliance health areas of a VMware
 vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA): appliance management, database,
 database storage, load, memory, software packages, storage, swap and
 overall system health. The data is retrieved by the special agent
 {agent_vcsa_health} from the appliance REST API.

 The appliance colors are mapped to monitoring states: green is {OK},
 yellow and orange are {WARN}, red is {CRIT} and gray is {UNKNOWN}.

item:
 The name of the health area.

discovery:
 One service is created for each health area reported by the appliance.
