On Thursday 15 January 2009 03:47:53 Everett, Vernon wrote:

SNMP appears to be a good approach. It shows enormous promise.

snmpwalk -v2c -c $Community_String $Host vmtable

gives lots of info about the VMs, but still no info about the actual host.

snmpwalk -v2c -c $Community_String $Host 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876 gives heaps of information, but still doesn't seem to contain what I want.

Walk the entire host, not just under the VMWare arc. It may provide data under some of the (RFC) standard OIDs that may be of interest (e.g. IFMIB etc.).

We could probably get devmon to do some funky monitoring of the VMs based on the output.

If the data is there, definitely.

What I need though, is the CPU, network, disk IO and memory utilisation of the entire ESX host, not just the VMs. Haven't given up just yet, though. :-)

Regards, Buchan