[hobbit] Re: ESX Hosts

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Tue Jan 13 17:55:11 CET 2009


This may or may not help...

Re: VMWare ESX: msg#00464
http://osdir.com/ml/monitoring.hobbit/2007/msg00464.html

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Jon Dustin <jdustin at usm.maine.edu> wrote:

> >>> On 1/12/2009 at 10:38 PM, in message <496C491C.0B6 : 45 : 32950>,
> "Everett,
> Vernon" <Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet?
> > In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc.
> > The usual suspects.
>
> I decided to use a "standard" Hobbit client running on the service console,
> then add my own customizations:
>
> - use vdf for disk space monitoring instead of df (picks up VMDK volumes)
>
> - use esxtop to get CPU usage for entire ESX box
>
> Here is a snippet I wrote for parsing ESXTOP output:
>
> my $esxtop = "sudo /usr/bin/esxtop -b -d $interval";
> open(CMD,"$esxtop |") || die "error - could not open $esxtop   $!\n";
> my $count = 0;
> while( <CMD> ) {
>        chomp;
>        s/\"//g;
>        my (@row) = split/\,/;
>        $count++;
>        if ( $count <= 2 ) { next; }    # skip 1st few results, just titles
> and 100% values
>        my $util = int($row[9]);        # round to INT, because RRD does not
> like floating-point
>        &SendHobbit($util);
>        if ( $verbose ) { print "util = $util\n"; }
> }
>
> I hope this helps, please don't flame my crappy code...  Enjoy!
>
> --
>
>
> Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
> University of Southern Maine
> Portland, ME  207-780-4152
>
>
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