[hobbit] VMWare ESX

[Rich Smrcina]

VMware ESX provides SNMP support, so it is likely that devmon can be 
used to query the data and report it to Hobbit.  I dabbled with some 
shell scripts to capture the info, but didn't get too far... :(

Jon Dustin wrote:
> Greetings -
> 
> I have been using Hobbit since summer 2006 (and Big Brother for about
> 10 years prior). GREAT system, my appreciation to Henrik and the
> community.
> 
> I am evaluating how to monitor our VMWare ESX boxes with Hobbit. I
> would like to have ESX report the "standard" set of data (cpu, disk,
> memory, msgs, procs, trends) and have Hobbit graph the data
> appropriately. As some of you may know, ESX is its "own" OS, with
> slightly different management tools for reporting on the VM GUEST
> sessions. There are appropriate analogies for top, ps, df, etc.
> 
> It seems this might best be handled by sending a "client data" report
> to Hobbit, and masquerading ESX to "look" similar to a Linux box. 
> 
> Is this feasible? Any potential problems? I have looked for some
> documentation on the client report, to no avail. Or should I just look
> at the Hobbit CLIENT source?
> 
> Thanks for any tips/tricks/traps.
> 
> 
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