[hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers

[Malcolm Hunter]

> I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering
> if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it
> appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the
> Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top
> [esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may
> void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and
> have found that most of the fields listed in VM's MIBs are not
> populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit
> client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring
> ESX servers via SNMP?

Because of the support issues with Xymon on the service console and the limitations of SNMP, we're looking to using a vMA as a proxy for the ESX hosts. It's early days yet, but it looks quite feasible.

Malcolm


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