[xymon] ESX 4.1

[Vernon Everett]

>From memory, no.
Like I said, ensure you install the appropriate client for the guest OS.
It should be pretty much the same as installing the client in a physical
host.

Regards
     Vernon



On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Dave Garaway <dave at dgaraway.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. Is there any tricks to getting the client install and
> running on the ESX hosts?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vernon Everett" <everett.vernon at gmail.com>
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 6:34:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [xymon] ESX 4.1
>
> 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:
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> Does anyone have a good way to monitor ESX hosts and the VMs that are
> running on them?
>
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