[hobbit] Monitoring Solaris 10 virtual machines

[Tim McCloskey]

Probably open to further discussion and development.

In our environment we have the client installed in each child zone and 
we only test the global zone for icmp (no client).  This works fine for 
us and deployment is very simple as the hobbit install is in our cloned 
zone that we import when we need another zone.  Another reason this 
works for us is that a large number of our developers have access to 
monitoring screens, and I don't discourage them from thinking that all 
those hostnames are physical boxes (which is an entirely different matter:).


More to the point in answer to your question, the best way to monitor 
those machines depends on your environment and what you want to monitor.

To my knowledge there are currently no complete working solutions for 
central monitoring from the global zone but there are a few scripts that 
have been created with some good progress.  Others will have a better 
answer, I'm sure....

Regards,
Tim


Anna Jonna Armannsdottir wrote:
> Solaris 10 has a virtualization capability which is the ability to 
> create so called zones, that effectively act like independent machines. 
> 
> What is the best way to monitor those virtual machines? 
>