<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div></div><div>Within the suite of VMWare tools and sudo. To get true dfs info, had to use vmw-dfs (or was it esx-dfs, or something similar) to get disk space on vmfs LUNs and minor changes to one of the hobbit config files (don't remember off the top of my head since I don't have any hobbit or ESX running at home).<br> </div>--<br><br><div>Jim Sloan</div><br><br><div>Just remember, today is the day you thought tomorrow was going to be yesterday.<div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "White, Bruce" <bewhite@fellowes.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, March 22, 2010 12:21:22 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.<br></font><br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 22, 2010 11:14
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I wrote several scripts at my last company, but they let me go, so I no
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Srinivas <am.srini@gmail.com><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> everett.vernon@gmail.com<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, March 22, 2010 11:52:17
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Hi,<br>
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I did installed Xymon ESX agent on to the ESX, I just want to know the status
of running VMs and its status.<br>
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Thanks for your assistance.<br>
AM</p>
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font-size:12.0pt;">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Vernon Everett <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:everett.vernon@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:everett.vernon@gmail.com">everett.vernon@gmail.com</a>>
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font-size:12.0pt;">You can install the Red Hat binaries in the ESX service console, and
although it works, it still only gives a limited view. (Remember, the service
console is also a VM)<br>
Also, remember, installing non-authorised packages into the service console
could negate support contracts.<br>
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I was playing with using SNMP to monitor the rest of the host server at my
previous contract, but never completed the job :-(<br>
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Getting a "complete view" of an ESX machine is not easy. We
eventually settled for the client in each VM, and the service console.<br>
Not perfect, but acceptable.<br>
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Cheers<br>
<font color="#888888"><span style="color:#888888;"> Vernon</span></font></span></font></p>
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font-size:12.0pt;">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Ambati Srinivas <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:am.srini@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:am.srini@gmail.com">am.srini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="
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Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?<br>
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AM</span></font></p>
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