No commercial posts please (was Re: [hobbit] Vmware-Monitor for Xymon (VMX))

[Malcolm Hunter]

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> Hi Bruce, list,
> 
> I'm in the last stages of building a vmware monitoring extension for xymon
> that does not require any changes to the ESX-hosts monitored. It uses the
> vMA
> (more precisely the vCLI installed on the vMA) to fetch the information
> from
> the vmware hosts (see below for a list of features).
> 
> My apologies to the list for announcing both a not-yet-public-available
> and a "light-commercial" extension here.
> 
> This thing is named "Vmware-Monitor for Xymon (VMX)" and requires the
> following environment:
> - vMA with hobbit- or xymon-client installed (hobbit-4.2.0 w/o all-in-one
>    patch works fine)
> - xymon-server with working user-channel and a working >=gawk-3.1.3
> - in particular _no_ vCenter is needed (as a nice side-effect monitoring
> of
>    vmware-server-2.0.x-hosts is possible too)
> The names of the VMs should be identical to their hostnames.
> 
> Currently the following features are implemented (short version):
> - central configuration of VMware-monitoring on the XYmon server 
> - current CPU- and memory-usage, both of the ensemble of all hosts and for
>    each individual VMware host and running VM (and graphical trending of
> these
>    and more of course)
> - per VM status-page with info about VMDKs, vCPUs, memory, ... and
>    vmware-tools (along with additional infos if tools are running)
> - overview and tracking of virtual machines on each VMware host, no matter
>    if the VM was moved by vmotion, DRS, manually added/removed, ...
>    So it's possible to easily determine when a VM was started or stopped
> on a
>    particular host!
> - warning if a host is in maintainance-mode or has the "reboot-needed"
> flag
>    set
> - vMEM/pMEM-ratio, i.e. how much of the physically available RAM is
> assigned
>    to the running VMs
> - one-click overview/summary for the following metrics:
>  	o number of monitored hosts (along with software version and
> patch-level)
>  	o number of running VMs
>  	o total CPU (MHz) available
>  	o CPU (MHz) used
>  	o total vCPU-count running
>  	o total physical RAM available
>  	o virtual RAM used (both "hostmemoryusage" and "guestmemoryusage")
> - ressource friendly: low monitoring overhead due to non-forking design on
>    the server-side and minimized disk-access to avoid I/O problems
> - all status-pages are hyperlinked to each other so navigation from the
>    overview-page down to a particular VM is quick and easy
> 
> The roadmap for possible additional features currently contains (no
> particular
> order):
> - disk-IO
> - network-IO
> - duplicate VM detection
> - configuration of alarm-triggers (e.g. for high cpu-/mem-usage)
> 
> Currently a ESX-cluster with 7 ESX 3.5 hosts is monitored without
> problems.
> ESX 4 / vSphere has been verified to work too as.
> 
> 
> Documentation is not complete yet but installation instructions,
> explanation
> of the status columns generated and graphing-details and -options are
> already
> written.
> 
> This extension will be available at a very affordable price. Of course a
> portion of the revenues will go to Henrik for providing XYmon at all --
> the
> "best monitoring solution"(tm).
> 
> If you are interested (either in getting an e-mail with the official
> announcement, in beta-testing or if you have questions) please let me know
> off-list.
> 
> 
> A Happy New Year to you all,
> 
>  	Thomas
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, White, Bruce wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bruce White
> > Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax:
> 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
> >
> >
> >
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