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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Perhaps the memory portion of the esxtop output is not quite in the format that the hobbit backend understands. If you have access to a system and a top command that hobbit does understand, compare the output formats. If you can figure out a difference between them, you mighjt be able to code a sed filter to normalize the esxtop format data before passing it on to hobbit.<BR>
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From: Ryan Sclanders <merlin_rbs@hotmail.com><BR>
To: hobbit@hswn.dk <hobbit@hswn.dk><BR>
Sent: Wed Jan 23 05:03:59 2008<BR>
Subject: [hobbit] esxtop<BR>
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Hi All,<BR>
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Was hoping someone could help me or at least steer me in the right direction when monitoring "memory usage" on an esx server. I have searched the web and newgroups only to find people talking about using esxtop and changing the hobbitclient-linux.sh script, when monitoring load and CPU. Unfortunately when changing the startup script to use esxtop the memory monitor column fails.<BR>
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I considered writing a basic script to monitor the memory (example below), but am not sure how I would create the graphs to trend the mem usage.<BR>
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#!/bin/sh<BR>
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COLUMN=mem<BR>
COLOR=green<BR>
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cat /proc/vmware/mem |grep "Machine memory free" > /tmp/meminfo.txt<BR>
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$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date`<BR>
`cat /tmp/meminfo.txt`<BR>
"<BR>
exit 0<BR>
###################<BR>
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Does anyone have any better ideas or are doing anything different that could help resolve this dilemma?<BR>
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Thanks in advance,<BR>
Ryan<BR>
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