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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The script reports VM usage on an ESX or ESXi host.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m a Unix/Linux shop. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The issue isn’t the script. The issue is the SDK on the ESXi host. I’ve been trying to find a way to restart the SDK on the host. It will come back with a reboot. But that involves moving the VMs off the machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Storer, Raymond [mailto:storerr@nibco.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 10, 2013 3:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Root, Paul T; 'xymon@xymon.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: bb-ESXi.pl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">What does this script do exactly?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If it reports on Host RAM, CPU and Disk space you might try some PowerShell code instead (assuming you have a Windows server to host it).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959">Ray</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Xymon [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Root, Paul T<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 5, 2013 4:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Root, Paul T; 'xymon@xymon.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] bb-ESXi.pl<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Oh, btw. No progress on getting the machines that won’t answer up the bb-ESX.pl script. So I’m guessing that the it’s the SDK on the host that failed.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m trying to figure out how to start that back up.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com">mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Root, Paul T<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'xymon@xymon.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] bb-ESXi.pl</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I got this ext script working. There were 2 secrets. Maybe 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">First I modified it to be xymon-ESXi.pl. Changing BB to XYMON and BBHOME to XYMONHOME. Etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Second, I found that it was looking for a file .esxpass in $XYMONHOME. This is the password to get into the ESXi host. The bb-ESX.pl had it hard coded.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lastly, my root password for the servers has bad characters in it. I have to think up a new root password now.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Actually. I’d rather add a user ‘xymon’ to the ESXi host. But I haven’t been able to get that to work at all. Does anybody know how to get that to work?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m also backfilling the bb-ESX.pl script to use the .esxpass file.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul.<o:p></o:p></p>
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