[hobbit] ESX monitoring.

Ambati Srinivas wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?

AM Apart from running hobbit/BBWin/BBNT on the VM itself, I have a script that monitors all VMs, does RRDs of memory usage (using devmon collector). It uses the vSphere SDK (originally built against viperl). It reports all non-discovered VMs under a test for the VirtualCenter host. Checks a bunch of stuff - conditions that prevent VMotion such as connected physical hardware, old/large snapshots that might fill the datastore (that is really ugly when it happens), old versions of VMWare tools, tools not running, mismatched IP with bb-hosts, NIC types (we have issues with Flexible/PCNet32 NICs drop off the network when tools don't start properly), etc.

It would need a bit of cleaning up but I could put it on http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors

Sample report:

ESX VM Status (ESX VM status vm.ausport.gov.au)

Status: yellow The entity might have a problem

VM name: VM

Hostname: evvsv.ausport.gov.au Guest name: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit) VM path name: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmx Status: yellow The entity might have a problem IP: 1.2.3.4 Power State: green poweredOn CPUs: 4 Memory: 3064 MB CPU resources: shares: 8000 reservation: 0 limit: green -1 Memory resources: shares: 30640 reservation: 0 limit: green 3064 Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualFloppy: /dev/fd0 Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualCdrom: Remote ATAPI Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualParallelPort: /dev/parport0 NIC: green connected (type: VirtualVmxnet2) Net: Production_Servers (MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) Disk: label: Hard disk 1 (size: 15 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmdk Disk: label: Hard disk 2 (size: 300 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM_1.vmdk VMwareTools: green VMware Tools is running and the version is current Comment: vRanger Pro Backup: Type [Full] Result [Success] Time [11/03/2010 4:07:21 PM] Repository [vRanger_4_Backups]

David.

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