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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have been using snmpwalk to look at data
on active ESX clusters. I have coded nothing for Xymon, but once you get
figured out what you want via snmpwalk, adding the hooks for Xymon is a breeze.
Like I said in my post, the issue is the data available on the ESX MIBs. It
is incomplete, or inaccurate. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font face=Tahoma size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
wiskbroom@hotmail.com [mailto:wiskbroom@hotmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, June 07, 2010 8:11
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [hobbit] RE: hobbit
monitoring on ESX servers</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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> Citerar "White, Bruce" <bewhite@fellowes.com>:<br>
> <br>
> > I have been playing with the ESX MIBs and I find the data almost<br>
> > worthless. would very much like to see just what you are capturing
from<br>
> > the MIBs.<br>
> <br>
> My experience as well. I wholeheartedly recommend Vmware's sdk: it's <br>
> free, it's supported and it really is the best way to do scripted <br>
> remote administration of esx.<br>
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Is this something that you are already working on? I'd love to see if you
have been able to tie this in to Xymon.<br>
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.vp<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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