[hobbit] RE: hobbit monitoring on ESX servers

[White, Bruce]

I have been playing with the ESX MIBs and I find the data almost
worthless. would very much like to see just what you are capturing from
the MIBs.  

It has been my experience that despite many data fields existing in
their MIBs, they fail to populate many of them.  I find memory and CPU
usage numbers for each "guest" are all presented as "shares" and there
is no place you can get a total shares available.   You can't add up the
"shares" reported to achieve the total because it shifts depending on
the "guests" running on the system and the percentages you derive in no
way match those reported by the GUI provided by vmware.  Also, they
don't provide any good numbers for the ESX host system.

I have found that running the BBWIN client on each "guest" provides much
better data for the individual "guest" and am left wanting for data on
the overall performance of the "host" ESX system.

Maybe I am missing "the boat."  If you can provide a little insight, I
would appreciate the guidance.

     ......Bruce
  

 
 Bruce White
 Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
 
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Rowell [mailto:MRowell at shopzilla.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 3:34 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] RE: hobbit monitoring on ESX servers

I have setup some monitoring of our ESX servers using devmon, the VMWare
mib on ESX is quite fully featured. At the moment i'm only doing basic
stuff with it as I haven't had a chance to increase it as yet.  Basic
stuff is Model and Kernel version uptime, load avg and also state of the
vm's, name, power state also memory, cpu and disk that has been
allocated (trying to carve this off into a capacity management bit so I
can tell how much free capacity I have per esx server.  It's enough to
get by but I want to add extra bits to the devmon template when I get a
chance.

Regards,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Nordquist, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com] 
Sent: 03 June 2010 19:33
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] hobbit monitoring on ESX servers

Hey all,

I've been looking around and reading some threads on this subject but I
don't see any solutions for monitoring ESX with Hobbit besides just
installing the regular client and thereby not being supported fully.

Does anyone know of any solutions?

Thank you,
Dan


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