#### esxi_hardware <a id="plugin-contrib-command-esxi-hardware"></a>
-The [check_esxi_hardware.py](https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/nagios-plugins/check_esxi_hardware.php) plugin
+The [check_esxi_hardware.py](https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins/check_esxi_hardware.php) plugin
uses the [pywbem](https://pywbem.github.io/pywbem/) Python library to monitor the hardware of ESXi servers
through the [VMWare API](https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html) and CIM service.
esxi_hardware_port | **Optional.** Specifies the CIM port to connect to. Defaults to 5989.
esxi_hardware_vendor | **Optional.** Defines the vendor of the server: "auto", "dell", "hp", "ibm", "intel", "unknown" (default).
esxi_hardware_html | **Optional.** Add web-links to hardware manuals for Dell servers (use your country extension). Only useful with **esxi_hardware_vendor** = dell.
-esxi_hardware_ignore | **Optional.** Comma separated list of elements to ignore.
+esxi_hardware_ignore | **Optional.** Comma separated list of CIM elements to ignore.
+esxi_hardware_regex | **Optional.** Allow regular expression lookups of elements in ignore list. Defaults to false.
esxi_hardware_perfdata | **Optional.** Add performcedata for graphers like PNP4Nagios to the output. Defaults to false.
esxi_hardware_nopower | **Optional.** Do not collect power performance data, when **esxi_hardware_perfdata** is set to true. Defaults to false.
esxi_hardware_novolts | **Optional.** Do not collect voltage performance data, when **esxi_hardware_perfdata** is set to true. Defaults to false.