[hobbit] ESX monitoring.

[David Baldwin]

Ambati Srinivas wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
>
> AM
Apart from running hobbit/BBWin/BBNT on the VM itself, I have a script
that monitors all VMs, does RRDs of memory usage (using devmon
collector). It uses the vSphere SDK (originally built against viperl).
It reports all non-discovered VMs under a test for the VirtualCenter
host. Checks a bunch of stuff - conditions that prevent VMotion such as
connected physical hardware, old/large snapshots that might fill the
datastore (that is really ugly when it happens), old versions of VMWare
tools, tools not running, mismatched IP with bb-hosts, NIC types (we
have issues with Flexible/PCNet32 NICs drop off the network when tools
don't start properly), etc.

It would need a bit of cleaning up but I could put it on
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors

Sample report:


ESX VM Status (ESX VM status vm.ausport.gov.au)

 Status: yellow The entity might have a problem

VM name: VM

Hostname: evvsv.ausport.gov.au
Guest name: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit)
VM path name: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmx
Status: yellow The entity might have a problem
IP: 1.2.3.4
Power State: green poweredOn
CPUs: 4
Memory: 3064 MB
CPU resources: shares: 8000 reservation: 0 limit: green -1
Memory resources: shares: 30640 reservation: 0 limit: green 3064
Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualFloppy: /dev/fd0
Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualCdrom: Remote ATAPI
Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualParallelPort: /dev/parport0
NIC: green connected (type: VirtualVmxnet2) Net: Production_Servers
(MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)
Disk: label: Hard disk 1 (size: 15 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmdk
Disk: label: Hard disk 2 (size: 300 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM_1.vmdk
VMwareTools: green VMware Tools is running and the version is current
Comment: vRanger Pro Backup: Type [Full] Result [Success] Time
[11/03/2010 4:07:21 PM] Repository [vRanger_4_Backups]


David.

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