Re: [hobbit] hobbit client on esx server?

[mario andre <rower.master (at) gmail.com>]

Hello all,

Has someone use the VI Perl Toolkit from vmware  VI Perl Toolkit Programming
Guide<http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/viperl16/doc/viperl_proggd.pdf>to
monitor the esxi ? ESX i ( the free version) don't have a console so
we
can't run the xymon client. I'm trying to convert a nagios esx  script
version
http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/op5plugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=check_esx3.pl;hb=HEAD
 . But if someone have already done it  or have a better idea could
save me
some time and of other friends too.


Thanks in advance,

Mario.





On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jon Dustin <jdustin (at) usm.maine.edu> wrote:

> >>> On 1/15/2008 at 4:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:02:02PM -0500, Jason Chambers wrote:
> >> Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me.
> >
> > Possible, but as I understand from our ESX guys you cannot install any
> > kind of 3rd-party software on the ESX host without voiding your support
> > agreement.
> >
> > In fact, ESX servers is one of the targets for my SNMP-based monitoring
> > tool right now.
> >
>
> This is an interesting "warning"...  If I am ever on the phone to VMWare
> Support, I will make sure to "forget" the Hobbit client is running!
>
> I am currently running the Hobbit client on 7 ESX 3.01 boxes, without any
> problems. I compiled the client on another server, then merely unzipped it
> on ESX, and adjusted the startup script. I also made a custom test that runs
> esxtop and parses the output to determine the "real" CPU load.
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> Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
> University of Southern Maine
> Portland, ME  207-780-4152
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