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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I used to use bb-esx, which I had modified and renamed xymon-esx. Upgrading to ESXi 6.x broke it, if I remember
correctly. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I ended up using devmon with connecting to the ESXi server. That gives me interface stats and states of the
VMs (power, location, OS, and status). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And IPMI connecting to the ILO of the hardware, providing disk, temperature, fan, power supply.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And a custom script that looks at the hardware raid.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Kris Springer<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:02 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> John Thurston; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Xymon] State of the art for monitoring ESXi hosts?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I'd be interested in that as well. I abandoned those particular tests a while ago because they didn't give much info.
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<p class="c3"><span class="c0"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kris Springer</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="c3"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On 01/31/2018 11:07 AM, John Thurston wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the
archives, I see a little content from several years ago. <br>
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It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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