We run a CentOS VM with a standard xymon client install, we replace the xymonclient-linux.sh with a customised version that uses esx-cli to report on CPU (along with guest VM status), disk, and memory from the ESXi host. We then have xymon extensions that report on disk consolidation, open snapshots, temperature of host hardware (with a graph), and status of host hardware (last two from the sensors view in esxi). We have one VM running on each host so that purple will alert us if the host goes down and we store the VM on the local datastore so that we get alerts if a shared datastore goes offline for a particular host. Has been working since ESXi 5, works fine on 6.5. Happy to share if requested, although the code isn't very pretty!
Thanks, JT
From: John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov> To: xymon at xymon.com Date: 01/02/18 06:08 Subject: [Xymon] State of the art for monitoring ESXi hosts? Sent by: "Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>
Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little content from several years ago.
It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?
-- Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska
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