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Re: [hobbit] ESX Hosts
- To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
- Subject: Re: [hobbit] ESX Hosts
- From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:10:25 +0200
- Cc: "Everett, Vernon" <Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au>
- References: <A3D12FAD74FC8B46991703F40C182BAB0450B02F84 (at) permls102.wde.woodside.com.au>
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On Thursday 15 January 2009 03:47:53 Everett, Vernon wrote:
> SNMP appears to be a good approach. It shows enormous promise.
> # snmpwalk -v2c -c $Community_String $Host vmtable
> gives lots of info about the VMs, but still no info about the actual host.
>
> snmpwalk -v2c -c $Community_String $Host 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876
> gives heaps of information, but still doesn't seem to contain what I want.
Walk the entire host, not just under the VMWare arc. It may provide data under
some of the (RFC) standard OIDs that may be of interest (e.g. IFMIB etc.).
> We could probably get devmon to do some funky monitoring of the VMs based
> on the output.
If the data is there, definitely.
> What I need though, is the CPU, network, disk IO and memory utilisation of
> the entire ESX host, not just the VMs. Haven't given up just yet, though.
> :-)
Regards,
Buchan