Re: ESX Hosts

["Jon Dustin" <jdustin (at) usm.maine.edu>]

>>> On 1/12/2009 at 10:38 PM, in message <496C491C.0B6 : 45 : 32950>, "Everett,
Vernon" <Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet?
> In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc.
> The usual suspects.

I decided to use a "standard" Hobbit client running on the service console, then add my own customizations:

- use vdf for disk space monitoring instead of df (picks up VMDK volumes)

- use esxtop to get CPU usage for entire ESX box

Here is a snippet I wrote for parsing ESXTOP output:

my $esxtop = "sudo /usr/bin/esxtop -b -d $interval";
open(CMD,"$esxtop |") || die "error - could not open $esxtop   $!\n";
my $count = 0;
while( <CMD> ) {
        chomp;
        s/\"//g;
        my (@row) = split/\,/;
        $count++;
        if ( $count <= 2 ) { next; }    # skip 1st few results, just titles and 100% values
        my $util = int($row[9]);        # round to INT, because RRD does not like floating-point
        &SendHobbit($util);
        if ( $verbose ) { print "util = $util\n"; }
}

I hope this helps, please don't flame my crappy code...  Enjoy!

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Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME  207-780-4152