RE: VM Ware MOnitoring.

["Storer, Raymond" <storerr (at) nibco.com>]

Neil, I'd recommend looking at Power Cli or the vMA appliance. There are lots of scripts on the VMware forums for both of these technologies. The Power Cli uses PowerShell on Windows and the vMA uses Perl and VMware's Perl VMware API on Linux.

I have a few scripts I can share using Power Cli if you want. I do not use the vMA or Perl to monitor my environment. I should tell you, however, if you are using ESXi with the free license you will *not* be able to do certain things using either of these technologies--e.g. a simple shutdown script if you lose power (I found another way to do it using Perl and SOAP).

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken (at) theunlimitedworld.co.za]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:32 AM
To: xymon (at) xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] VM Ware MOnitoring.

Hi Guys

I need to monitor a VM environment to eliminate it from some performance problems at a client. Has anybody got some tips for me on how to get this right? Is there scripts? Anything I should be aware of? Just point me and I will sort it out.

Regards
Neil

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