Re: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.

[Vernon Everett <everett.vernon (at) gmail.com>]

Sounds like you actually finished what I started trying to do :-)
Xymonton would be an excellent place for it.

Please post.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:19 AM, David Baldwin <david.baldwin (at) ausport.gov.au
> wrote:

> Ambati Srinivas wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
> >
> > AM
> Apart from running hobbit/BBWin/BBNT on the VM itself, I have a script
> that monitors all VMs, does RRDs of memory usage (using devmon
> collector). It uses the vSphere SDK (originally built against viperl).
> It reports all non-discovered VMs under a test for the VirtualCenter
> host. Checks a bunch of stuff - conditions that prevent VMotion such as
> connected physical hardware, old/large snapshots that might fill the
> datastore (that is really ugly when it happens), old versions of VMWare
> tools, tools not running, mismatched IP with bb-hosts, NIC types (we
> have issues with Flexible/PCNet32 NICs drop off the network when tools
> don't start properly), etc.
>
> It would need a bit of cleaning up but I could put it on
> http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors
>
> Sample report:
>
>
> ESX VM Status (ESX VM status vm.ausport.gov.au)
>
>  Status: yellow The entity might have a problem
>
> VM name: VM
>
> Hostname: evvsv.ausport.gov.au
> Guest name: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit)
> VM path name: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmx
> Status: yellow The entity might have a problem
> IP: 1.2.3.4
> Power State: green poweredOn
> CPUs: 4
> Memory: 3064 MB
> CPU resources: shares: 8000 reservation: 0 limit: green -1
> Memory resources: shares: 30640 reservation: 0 limit: green 3064
> Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualFloppy: /dev/fd0
> Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualCdrom: Remote ATAPI
> Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualParallelPort: /dev/parport0
> NIC: green connected (type: VirtualVmxnet2) Net: Production_Servers
> (MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx)
> Disk: label: Hard disk 1 (size: 15 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmdk
> Disk: label: Hard disk 2 (size: 300 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM_1.vmdk
> VMwareTools: green VMware Tools is running and the version is current
> Comment: vRanger Pro Backup: Type [Full] Result [Success] Time
> [11/03/2010 4:07:21 PM] Repository [vRanger_4_Backups]
>
>
> David.
>
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> David Baldwin - IT Unit
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