troubleshoot-vmware-vcsa
OfficialTriage vCenter vCSA incidents with Netdata
Authornetdata
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?
This skill helps you quickly diagnose common VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) failures by tracing health signals through Netdata’s MCP query surface and guiding remediation based on the operator playbook.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Structured triage for vCSA failure archetypes: Covers certificate expiry cascades, disk space exhaustion on specific partitions, database bloat/stat growth, vpxd memory exhaustion/crash loops, and service dependency deadlocks.
- Netdata-driven MCP diagnostics: Uses MCP calls to list nodes/metrics, pull the last 15–30 minutes of relevant contexts, and surface anomalies to decide which rule domain to inspect first.
- Verification-focused remediation loop: Re-runs the same MCP queries after remediation to confirm signals return to expected ranges within a short interval.
Quick Start
Ask an AI agent to diagnose your vCenter vCSA using Netdata MCP health signals and to recommend the most likely remediation path based on the detected failure archetype.
Dependency Matrix
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💻 Claude Code Installation
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: troubleshoot-vmware-vcsa Download link: https://github.com/netdata/skills/archive/main.zip#troubleshoot-vmware-vcsa Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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