[hobbit] ESX Hosts

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday 15 January 2009 03:47:53 Everett, Vernon wrote:
> SNMP appears to be a good approach. It shows enormous promise.
> # snmpwalk -v2c -c $Community_String $Host vmtable
> gives lots of info about the VMs, but still no info about the actual host.
>
> snmpwalk -v2c -c $Community_String $Host  1.3.6.1.4.1.6876
> gives heaps of information, but still doesn't seem to contain what I want.

Walk the entire host, not just under the VMWare arc. It may provide data under 
some of the (RFC) standard OIDs that may be of interest (e.g. IFMIB etc.).

> We could probably get devmon to do some funky monitoring of the VMs based
> on the output.

If the data is there, definitely.

> What I need though, is the CPU, network, disk IO and memory utilisation of
> the entire ESX host, not just the VMs. Haven't given up just yet, though.
> :-)

Regards,
Buchan