[hobbit] VMWare ESX

[xavier pajona]

VMware ESX is nothing but a slightly modified RedHat. Maybe you could
try and use the RedHat hobbit client.

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:23 -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
> 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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