Compile a copy of hobbit on a RedHat ES3 or ES4 server and just copy it over to your ESX servers, VMWare is a RedHat Linux Kernel. I have it running on 12 of my ESX servers and it works great. You will just need to modify a few of the commands like the df command and there are a few other I cant remember off the top of my head.
Trent
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Dustin [mailto:jdustin at usm.maine.edu] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:21 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] VMWare ESX
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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