Hi all
Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet? In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc. The usual suspects.
I know there was some mutterings about SNMP monitoring on the list. Has this progressed any further yet?
Regards V
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Everett, Vernon wrote:
Hi all
Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet? You can compile the hobbit client like normal on ESX. Just install gcc etc and this will work. Alternatively you can install it on a RHEL or CentOS 3 server. This is (sort of) what ESX is based on
Cheers
Iain
In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc. The usual suspects.
I know there was some mutterings about SNMP monitoring on the list. Has this progressed any further yet?
Regards V
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Alternatively you can install it on a RHEL or CentOS 3 server. This is (sort of) what ESX is based on
^^^^^^
This should of course be you can compile on on a RHEL or CentOS 3 server and create an RPM package and install it on the ESX server
Cheers
Iain
Hi!
ESX servers are secured. I've just install an agent on one. Your remember me I had to install on my esx servers :) Thanks! The ESX can't connect the hobbit server the 1984 port. You should connect via ssh-tunnel. It's work very well! http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#M...
Samuel
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Everett, Vernon wrote:
Hi all
Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet? You can compile the hobbit client like normal on ESX. Just install gcc etc and this will work. Alternatively you can install it on a RHEL or CentOS 3 server. This is (sort of) what ESX is based on
Cheers
Iain
In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc. The usual suspects.
I know there was some mutterings about SNMP monitoring on the list. Has this progressed any further yet?
Regards V
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hello
it's not necessary to install the standart xymon client on the esx servers. The information reported won't be usefull because you are going to monitore service console not the "real" state of esx server.
Perhaps for the fs but you have to change the xymon df command into vdf to see the vmware fs.
I use the xymon client on esx service console to graph the number of vm on an esx server. I cant follow the drs and see if he do his job like I want.
I you have a way to monitore cpu la io memory of a esx cluster give us your code :)
About snmp : it seems that the snmp mib change all time ... I have give up this way.
Olivier
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:47:12 +0100, "RENARD Samuel" <Samuel.RENARD at cg29.fr> wrote:
Hi!
ESX servers are secured. I've just install an agent on one. Your remember me I had to install on my esx servers :) Thanks! The ESX can't connect the hobbit server the 1984 port. You should connect via ssh-tunnel. It's work very well!
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#M...
Samuel
-----Message d'origine----- De : Iain M Conochie [mailto:iain at shihad.org] Envoyé : mardi 13 janvier 2009 10:02 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] ESX Hosts
Everett, Vernon wrote:
Hi all
Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet? You can compile the hobbit client like normal on ESX. Just install gcc
etc
and this will work. Alternatively you can install it on a RHEL or CentOS 3 server. This is (sort of) what ESX is based on
Cheers
Iain
In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc. The usual suspects.
I know there was some mutterings about SNMP monitoring on the list. Has this progressed any further yet?
Regards V
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Olivier AUDRY wrote:
hello
it's not necessary to install the standart xymon client on the esx servers. The information reported won't be usefull because you are going to monitore service console not the "real" state of esx server.
True. However you should be able to query the status using esx commands. You can then run scripts using the hobbit client
Perhaps for the fs but you have to change the xymon df command into vdf to see the vmware fs.
I use the xymon client on esx service console to graph the number of vm on an esx server. I cant follow the drs and see if he do his job like I want.
I you have a way to monitore cpu la io memory of a esx cluster give us your code :)
If i had it i would gladly donate it :) I will need to look into ESX some more
Iain
About snmp : it seems that the snmp mib change all time ... I have give up this way.
Olivier
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:47:12 +0100, "RENARD Samuel" <Samuel.RENARD at cg29.fr> wrote:
Hi!
ESX servers are secured. I've just install an agent on one. Your remember me I had to install on my esx servers :) Thanks! The ESX can't connect
the
hobbit server the 1984 port. You should connect via ssh-tunnel. It's work very well!
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#M...
Samuel
-----Message d'origine----- De : Iain M Conochie [mailto:iain at shihad.org] Envoyé : mardi 13 janvier 2009 10:02 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] ESX Hosts
Everett, Vernon wrote:
Hi all
Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet?
You can compile the hobbit client like normal on ESX. Just install gcc
etc
and this will work. Alternatively you can install it on a RHEL or CentOS
3
server. This is (sort of) what ESX is based on
Cheers
Iain
In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc. The usual suspects.
I know there was some mutterings about SNMP monitoring on the list. Has this progressed any further yet?
Regards V
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Hi all
Thanks for the multiple responses. Some of you understand the problem. Olivier, Iain, I am looking at you :-) And thanks for the firewall tip.
Thanks for the link Josh - Not quite as easy as it looks though. :-( Will keep plugging at it when I get time.
One of the problems with ESX, is that the console is also a VM. Installing hobbit in the console is all well and good, and probably will be cause for complaints from VMWare support, but still gives us no information about the ESX host itself. The utility esxtop is great, and gives lots of info, but is very limited and completely ugly when running in non-interactive mode. Try getting the disk controller stats in batch mode. (If you get it right, please let me know how.)
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.
We could probably get devmon to do some funky monitoring of the VMs based on the output.
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. :-)
Cheers Vernon
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Vernon, does your hardware vendor have anything you can install on the console that would give you the information? If you are using Dell, OpenManage can do the trick with SNMP.
Ray
From: Everett, Vernon [Vernon.Everett at woodside.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:47 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] ESX Hosts
Hi all
Thanks for the multiple responses. Some of you understand the problem. Olivier, Iain, I am looking at you :-) And thanks for the firewall tip.
Thanks for the link Josh - Not quite as easy as it looks though. :-( Will keep plugging at it when I get time.
One of the problems with ESX, is that the console is also a VM. Installing hobbit in the console is all well and good, and probably will be cause for complaints from VMWare support, but still gives us no information about the ESX host itself. The utility esxtop is great, and gives lots of info, but is very limited and completely ugly when running in non-interactive mode. Try getting the disk controller stats in batch mode. (If you get it right, please let me know how.)
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.
We could probably get devmon to do some funky monitoring of the VMs based on the output.
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. :-)
Cheers Vernon
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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
RENARD Samuel wrote:
Hi!
ESX servers are secured. I've just install an agent on one. Your remember me I had to install on my esx servers :) Thanks! The ESX can't connect the hobbit server the 1984 port. You should connect via ssh-tunnel. It's work very well! http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#M...
Or just open up the firewall!
esxcfg-firewall -o 1984,tcp,out,Hobbit
Cheers
Iain
Samuel
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Everett, Vernon wrote:
Hi all
Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet?
You can compile the hobbit client like normal on ESX. Just install gcc etc and this will work. Alternatively you can install it on a RHEL or CentOS 3 server. This is (sort of) what ESX is based on
Cheers
Iain
In particular, I am looking for HBA and disk stats, CPU, memory, etc. The usual suspects.
I know there was some mutterings about SNMP monitoring on the list. Has this progressed any further yet?
Regards V
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RENARD Samuel a écrit :
Hi!
ESX servers are secured. I've just install an agent on one. Your remember me I had to install on my esx servers :) Thanks! The ESX can't connect the hobbit server the 1984 port. You should connect via ssh-tunnel. It's work very well! http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#M...
Samuel
there is an iptables like config on the esx server. you need to manually allow the outgoing packets on port 1984 with /usr/sbin/esxcfg-firewall.
-----Message d'origine----- De : Iain M Conochie [mailto:iain at shihad.org] Envoyé : mardi 13 janvier 2009 10:02 À : hobbit at hswn.dk Objet : Re: [hobbit] ESX Hosts
Everett, Vernon wrote:
Hi all
Has anybody had any success monitoring ESX hosts yet?
You can compile the hobbit client like normal on ESX. Just install gcc etc and this will work. Alternatively you can install it on a RHEL or CentOS 3 server. This is (sort of) what ESX is based on
Cheers
Iain
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bgmilne＠staff.telkomsa.net
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olivier＠audry.fr
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