Loris, you are ahead of me.
Sorry I don't have answer for your question since I haven't tackle this myself yet. I have interest to get xymon client for ESXi to work since I have a few ESXi and ESX machines monitored(conn) by Xymon.
One thing you can try is to do a "sh -x" on hobbitclient-linux.sh to see if every commands ran fine ? ESX is a slimmed down version of Linux(RH 9 ?), you should have done many changes in hobbitclient-linux.sh file.
Can you share what you have done to prepare a Xymon client for ESX ?
I am hoping this ESX effort can be rolled in src in the end.
tj
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:35 AM, <loris.serena at pncgis.ie> wrote:
Hello List,
First of all, congratulations Buchan!!!
I have a couple of issues on two VMWare ESX 3.5 boxes. The xymon client compiled ok and starts fine, just after 30 or so minutes of all green, the local tests (disk, cpu. memory, etc...) turn purple on the BBDISPLAY. On the ESX box (dubesxserver), the xymon client is still up
xymon at dubesxserver logs]$ ps -ef | grep xymon xymon 20485 1 0 12:54 ? 00:00:00 /home/xymon/client/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg --log=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.log --pidfile=/home/xymon/client/logs/clientlaunch.dubesxserver.pid [xymon at dubesxserver logs]$
and the logs look clean
[xymon at dubesxserver logs]$ tail -6 clientlaunch.log 2010-07-08 11:04:12 hobbitlaunch starting 2010-07-08 11:04:12 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg 2010-07-08 11:44:14 hobbitlaunch starting 2010-07-08 11:44:14 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg 2010-07-08 12:54:23 hobbitlaunch starting 2010-07-08 12:54:23 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/xymon/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg [xymon at dubesxserver logs]$
On the The xymon server (mjolnir), the only thing I could spot in the logs is the following:
[xymon at mjolnir xymon]$ grep dubesxserver /var/log/xymon/history.log 2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.memory - color unchanged (purple) 2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.files - color unchanged (purple) 2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.msgs
- color unchanged (purple) 2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.ports - color unchanged (purple) 2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.procs - color unchanged (purple) 2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.disk
- color unchanged (purple) 2010-07-08 13:55:56 Will not update /home/xymon/data/hist/dubesxserver.cpu
- color unchanged (purple)
There are no ghost clients. The two ESX boxes are the only two FQDN hosts in an entirely non-FQDN environment. I think I got this right in bb-hosts, but too much of a coincidence not to mention it.
[xymon at mjolnir etc]$ grep dubesx bb-hosts 10.11.12.11 dubesxserver # CLIENT:dubesxserver.mydomain.com !telnet !ftp ssh !smtp 10.11.12.12 dubesxserver2 # CLIENT:dubesxserver2.mydomain.com !telnet !ftp ssh !smtp
So... what am I missing here?
Also, reading through previous posts, I've amended the df section of hobbitclient-linux on the xymon client to be as follows:
echo "[df]" sudo /usr/sbin/vdf -P | egrep -v "\/vmfs\/devices|none|tmpfs|shmfs|unknown|iso9660" | sed -e '/^[^ ][^ ]*$/{ N s/[ ]*\n[ ]*/ / }'
The data seem to arrive ok to the xymon server (the below is take from the http://mjolnir/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=dubesxserver&SERVICE=disk page)
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda2 5036316 2091244 2689240 44% / /dev/sda1 101089 29317 66553 31% /boot /dev/sda7 2008080 160456 1745616 9% /var/log /vmfs/volumes/45e4461c-a5352206-a179-0019b9b80358 1298923520 996801536 302121984 76% /vmfs/volumes/Dubesxserver_Storage1 /vmfs/volumes/4a48df4f-c3b2e5bb-d72c-00188b44e922 419430400 351988736 67441664 83% /vmfs/volumes/ESX_LUN_Compton /vmfs/volumes/4be031bd-23a8786b-9e26-00188b44e922 943456256 839100416 104355840 88% /vmfs/volumes/4be031bd-23a8786b-9e26-00188b44e922
but all the disks graph are blank, i.e. the six filesystems are listed ok in the graphs, but none is graphed and all six say:
<partition name> nan (cur) nan (man) nan (min) nan (avg)
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, here?
Cheers
Loris
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