VMware Guests Monitor

[Harold J. Ballinger]

I am not much of a bash script artist, but I know the logic that I need to use for an EXT that I think many VMware users would find handy. The purpose of this EXT is to provide a list of virtual machines that are allocated to the host, and indicate whether or not they are running.

I've tried to provide my logic below:

### "vmware-cmd -l" needs to be run to get list of Virtual Machines allocated to the host ###

[root at HHCGVL-VMWA01 root]# vmware-cmd -l
/vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.3/esXpress.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4bff448c-e7962c66-fbb4-001372540ee2/replica-49ae5498-5bcf-4bb7-9075-/replica-49ae5498-5bcf-4bb7-9075-.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.1/esXpress.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.2/esXpress.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4bff4a29-c7b1c616-8d51-001372540ee2/HHCDMZ-JUMP05 (OpenFire)/HHCDMZ-JUMP05 (OpenFire).vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4bff1f3d-77949257-b4a5-001372540ee2/HHCGVL-ADMN01/HHCGVL-VMWA00.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.4/esXpress.vmx
/vmfs/volumes/4bff4a29-c7b1c616-8d51-001372540ee2/HHCDEV-ISIT01/HHCDEV-ISIT01.vmx

### For each line %i : ###

### "vmware-cmd %i getstate" needs to be run for red/green for each entry returned above ###

[root at HHCGVL-VMWA01 root]# vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/4a919549-2258d183-7668-001372540ee3/esXpress_VBAs/esXpress_Helper.hhcgvl-vmwa01.hhc.int.3/esXpress.vmx getstate
getstate() = off

### "/vmfs/volumes/" needs to be stripped from each entry ###
### All text up to and including the first "/" needs to be trimmed ###
### All text including and after the second "/" needs to be trimmed ###
### "&red " or "&green " needs to be added to the beginning based off of getstate result ###

### End Loop ###

### Logic for excluding expected "down" machines ###
??????? exclude any line that includes "DEV" ????????
??????? exclude any line that includes "esXpress" ??????
??????? exclude any line that includes "replica" ??????
??????? maybe provide a file or comma delimited list of terms to exclude ?????

### add "red" or "green" at beginning as a summary ###
### Add "************ERRORS*****************" if red ###
### Add "***********All is Well*****************" if green ###

### Place output in logs folder for upload to monitoring server ###

### See example output below ###

Red Tue 09/01/2009 13:30:29.59
***************ERRORS******************
&red HHCDMZ-JUMP05 (OpenFire)
&green HHCGVL-ADMN01


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Harold Ballinger
IT Manager
Heritage Healthcare, Inc.
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