[hobbit] RE: hobbit monitoring on ESX servers

[ulric at siag.nu]

Citerar wiskbroom at hotmail.com:

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>> Citerar "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com>:
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>> > 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.
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>> My experience as well. I wholeheartedly recommend Vmware's sdk: it's
>> free, it's supported and it really is the best way to do scripted
>> remote administration of esx.
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> Is this something that you are already working on?  I'd love to see 
> if you have been able to tie this in to Xymon.

Here is the sdk:

http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/forums/vsphere_sdk_perl

And here is the Nagios plugin i wrote about earlier:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/*-Virtual-Environments/VMWare/check_esx3/details

I've only used it with Nagios, but the structure of a Nagios plugin is 
very similar to a Xymon ext script and one can be trivially converted 
to the other.

Ulric