Re: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers

["Malcolm Hunter" <malcolm.hunter (at) gmx.co.uk>]

> 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!

Any chance you could share what you did? It would be good to collaborate on this as it definitely seems to be a market need.

Thanks,

Malcolm


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