It depends on what you want to monitor.

Most of the zone can be monitored from a Hobbit client running on the container itself. Processes in the zone are still visible in the container, disk space can be monitored from there too.

If you have limited the resources available to that zone then you would want to run a Hobbit client inside it (tying an interface to a zone needs to be monitored this way for example).

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-----Original Message----- From: Anna Jonna Armannsdottir [mailto:annaj at hi.is] Sent: 07 October 2008 11:02 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Monitoring Solaris 10 virtual machines

Solaris 10 has a virtualization capability which is the ability to create so called zones, that effectively act like independent machines.

What is the best way to monitor those virtual machines?

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Probably open to further discussion and development.

In our environment we have the client installed in each child zone and we only test the global zone for icmp (no client). This works fine for us and deployment is very simple as the hobbit install is in our cloned zone that we import when we need another zone. Another reason this works for us is that a large number of our developers have access to monitoring screens, and I don't discourage them from thinking that all those hostnames are physical boxes (which is an entirely different matter:).

More to the point in answer to your question, the best way to monitor those machines depends on your environment and what you want to monitor.

To my knowledge there are currently no complete working solutions for central monitoring from the global zone but there are a few scripts that have been created with some good progress. Others will have a better answer, I'm sure....

Regards, Tim

Anna Jonna Armannsdottir wrote:

Solaris 10 has a virtualization capability which is the ability to create so called zones, that effectively act like independent machines.

What is the best way to monitor those virtual machines?