Re: [xymon] ESX 4.1

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

Hi Dave

This question pops up every few months or so. I even asked it myself once
upon a time.
The short, but unfortunately incorrect answer is that you can install the
Red Hat client in the service console. It is after all, a Linux variant.
However, this monitors only the service console, which is itself, only a VM,
so it gives you almost nothing about the general health of the system as a
whole.

You can install the Xymon client into each VM, in which case, you simply use
the appropriate client for the installed OS. But again, this will only give
an indication of the health of the VM, not the entire host server.

At one point, when called upon to monitor ESX, I started trying to do some
interesting stuff with SNMP using Devmon, but I moved on to a different
project, so I never completed it.
I did however post to the list what I had managed to do, and hoped somebody
else would have picked up where I left off. As far as I am aware, nobody
did. :-(
NOTE : I am more than happy to be proven wrong on this point. :-)
Scan the list for postings from me from about 12 to 18 months ago. It might
come up with something which may prove useful.

Unless somebody takes the time to come up with an ESX specific client, or
does some magic with SNMP, your only hope is to install clients into every
VM.

Regards
     Vernon


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Dave Garaway <dave (at) dgaraway.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have a good way to monitor ESX hosts and the VMs that are
> running on them?
>