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Re: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers
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- Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers
- From: Peter Welter <peter.welter (at) gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:32:07 +0100
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- References: <kv0f2u.baglfu (at) webmail.netland.nl> <E3DD778AAB612749A8C610B39D1850DA06990773 (at) msitmx02.fellowes-na.com> <20091222000610.168400 (at) gmx.net>
We use esxi that does not allow you to install anything on the hosts.
However, vmware does provide you wth a Perl-library
(http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/) so that you
can query your esx(i)-servers about load, network traffic, disk usage
etc. You query with the library, the virtualcenter server.
We made a Xymon check on the Xymon serer (very quick and dirty) but I
do have some graphs and info now that is very informative without
logging in into the vmware console. Just the normal, plain, very
informative XYmon, yahoo!
Peter
2009/12/22 Malcolm Hunter <malcolm.hunter (at) gmx.co.uk>:
>> I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering
>> if there is any newer insight into this question. At that time, it
>> appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the
>> Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to the df [vdf] and top
>> [esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may
>> void your support. I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and
>> have found that most of the fields listed in VM's MIBs are not
>> populated. So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit
>> client without issue? Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring
>> ESX servers via SNMP?
>
> Because of the support issues with Xymon on the service console and the limitations of SNMP, we're looking to using a vMA as a proxy for the ESX hosts. It's early days yet, but it looks quite feasible.
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> Malcolm
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