[hobbit] VMWare ESX

[Trent Melcher]

Compile a copy of hobbit on a RedHat ES3 or ES4 server and just copy it
over to your ESX servers,  VMWare is a RedHat Linux Kernel.  I have it
running on 12 of my ESX servers and it works great.  You will just need
to modify a few of the commands like the df command and there are a few
other I cant remember off the top of my head.

Trent

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Dustin [mailto:jdustin at usm.maine.edu] 
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:21 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] VMWare ESX

Greetings -

I have been using Hobbit since summer 2006 (and Big Brother for about
10 years prior). GREAT system, my appreciation to Henrik and the
community.

I am evaluating how to monitor our VMWare ESX boxes with Hobbit. I
would like to have ESX report the "standard" set of data (cpu, disk,
memory, msgs, procs, trends) and have Hobbit graph the data
appropriately. As some of you may know, ESX is its "own" OS, with
slightly different management tools for reporting on the VM GUEST
sessions. There are appropriate analogies for top, ps, df, etc.

It seems this might best be handled by sending a "client data" report
to Hobbit, and masquerading ESX to "look" similar to a Linux box. 

Is this feasible? Any potential problems? I have looked for some
documentation on the client report, to no avail. Or should I just look
at the Hobbit CLIENT source?

Thanks for any tips/tricks/traps.



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