Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM
You can install the Red Hat binaries in the ESX service console, and although it works, it still only gives a limited view. (Remember, the service console is also a VM) Also, remember, installing non-authorised packages into the service console could negate support contracts.
I was playing with using SNMP to monitor the rest of the host server at my previous contract, but never completed the job :-(
Getting a "complete view" of an ESX machine is not easy. We eventually settled for the client in each VM, and the service console. Not perfect, but acceptable.
Cheers Vernon
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM
Hi,
I did installed Xymon ESX agent on to the ESX, I just want to know the status of running VMs and its status.
Thanks for your assistance. AM
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:
You can install the Red Hat binaries in the ESX service console, and although it works, it still only gives a limited view. (Remember, the service console is also a VM) Also, remember, installing non-authorised packages into the service console could negate support contracts.
I was playing with using SNMP to monitor the rest of the host server at my previous contract, but never completed the job :-(
Getting a "complete view" of an ESX machine is not easy. We eventually settled for the client in each VM, and the service console. Not perfect, but acceptable.
Cheers Vernon
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com>wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM
You'll need to write custom scripts for monitoring VMs. I wrote several scripts at my last company, but they let me go, so I no longer have access to those scripts.
Jim Sloan
Just remember, today is the day you thought tomorrow was going to be yesterday.
From: Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: everett.vernon at gmail.com Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 11:52:17 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.
Hi,
I did installed Xymon ESX agent on to the ESX, I just want to know the status of running VMs and its status.
Thanks for your assistance. AM
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
You can install the Red Hat binaries in the ESX service console, and although it works, it still only gives a limited view. (Remember, the service console is also a VM)
Also, remember, installing non-authorised packages into the service console could negate support contracts.
I was playing with using SNMP to monitor the rest of the host server at my previous contract, but never completed the job :-(
Getting a "complete view" of an ESX machine is not easy. We eventually settled for the client in each VM, and the service console.
Not perfect, but acceptable.
Cheers Vernon
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM
JIM,
Were your scripts SNMP based or something within the VMWare suite of tools?
....Bruce
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From: Odinn [mailto:odinn_asgaard at yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:14 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.
You'll need to write custom scripts for monitoring VMs. I wrote several scripts at my last company, but they let me go, so I no longer have access to those scripts.
--
Jim Sloan
Just remember, today is the day you thought tomorrow was going to be yesterday.
From: Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: everett.vernon at gmail.com Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 11:52:17 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.
Hi,
I did installed Xymon ESX agent on to the ESX, I just want to know the status of running VMs and its status.
Thanks for your assistance. AM
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
You can install the Red Hat binaries in the ESX service console, and although it works, it still only gives a limited view. (Remember, the service console is also a VM) Also, remember, installing non-authorised packages into the service console could negate support contracts.
I was playing with using SNMP to monitor the rest of the host server at my previous contract, but never completed the job :-(
Getting a "complete view" of an ESX machine is not easy. We eventually settled for the client in each VM, and the service console. Not perfect, but acceptable.
Cheers Vernon
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM
Within the suite of VMWare tools and sudo. To get true dfs info, had to use vmw-dfs (or was it esx-dfs, or something similar) to get disk space on vmfs LUNs and minor changes to one of the hobbit config files (don't remember off the top of my head since I don't have any hobbit or ESX running at home).
Jim Sloan
Just remember, today is the day you thought tomorrow was going to be yesterday.
From: "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 12:21:22 PM Subject: RE: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.
JIM,
Were your scripts SNMP based or something within the VMWare suite of tools?
….BruceBruceWhite Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | www.fellowes.com
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From:Odinn [mailto:odinn_asgaard at yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:14 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.
You'll need to write custom scripts for monitoring VMs. I wrote several scripts at my last company, but they let me go, so I no longer have access to those scripts.
-- Jim Sloan
Just remember, today is the day you thought tomorrow was going to be yesterday.
From:Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Cc: everett.vernon at gmail.com Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 11:52:17 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.
Hi,
I did installed Xymon ESX agent on to the ESX, I just want to know the status of running VMs and its status.
Thanks for your assistance. AM On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote: You can install the Red Hat binaries in the ESX service console, and although it works, it still only gives a limited view. (Remember, the service console is also a VM) Also, remember, installing non-authorised packages into the service console could negate support contracts.
I was playing with using SNMP to monitor the rest of the host server at my previous contract, but never completed the job :-(
Getting a "complete view" of an ESX machine is not easy. We eventually settled for the client in each VM, and the service console. Not perfect, but acceptable.
Cheers Vernon
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> wrote: Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM
Moral: Always dump off your scripts or your personal DEV CVS about once a month "just in case". No reason all that research and work should go to waste. :)
I keep my personal repository on a dropbox share, and just mount it up on all my boxes. If I decide to leave, remove dropbox, and voila! They don't have my personal stuff and I haven't lost anything I've written!
Jerald M. Sheets jr.
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Odinn <odinn_asgaard at yahoo.com> wrote:
I wrote several scripts at my last company, but they let me go, so I no longer have access to those scripts.
--
Jim Sloan
Just remember, today is the day you thought tomorrow was going to be yesterday.
*From:* Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Cc:* everett.vernon at gmail.com *Sent:* Mon, March 22, 2010 11:52:17 AM *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] ESX monitoring.
Hi,
I did installed Xymon ESX agent on to the ESX, I just want to know the status of running VMs and its status.
Thanks for your assistance. AM
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>wrote:
You can install the Red Hat binaries in the ESX service console, and although it works, it still only gives a limited view. (Remember, the service console is also a VM) Also, remember, installing non-authorised packages into the service console could negate support contracts.
I was playing with using SNMP to monitor the rest of the host server at my previous contract, but never completed the job :-(
Getting a "complete view" of an ESX machine is not easy. We eventually settled for the client in each VM, and the service console. Not perfect, but acceptable.
Cheers Vernon
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Ambati Srinivas <am.srini at gmail.com>wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM
Ambati Srinivas wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM Apart from running hobbit/BBWin/BBNT on the VM itself, I have a script that monitors all VMs, does RRDs of memory usage (using devmon collector). It uses the vSphere SDK (originally built against viperl). It reports all non-discovered VMs under a test for the VirtualCenter host. Checks a bunch of stuff - conditions that prevent VMotion such as connected physical hardware, old/large snapshots that might fill the datastore (that is really ugly when it happens), old versions of VMWare tools, tools not running, mismatched IP with bb-hosts, NIC types (we have issues with Flexible/PCNet32 NICs drop off the network when tools don't start properly), etc.
It would need a bit of cleaning up but I could put it on http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors
Sample report:
ESX VM Status (ESX VM status vm.ausport.gov.au)
Status: yellow The entity might have a problem
VM name: VM
Hostname: evvsv.ausport.gov.au Guest name: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit) VM path name: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmx Status: yellow The entity might have a problem IP: 1.2.3.4 Power State: green poweredOn CPUs: 4 Memory: 3064 MB CPU resources: shares: 8000 reservation: 0 limit: green -1 Memory resources: shares: 30640 reservation: 0 limit: green 3064 Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualFloppy: /dev/fd0 Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualCdrom: Remote ATAPI Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualParallelPort: /dev/parport0 NIC: green connected (type: VirtualVmxnet2) Net: Production_Servers (MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) Disk: label: Hard disk 1 (size: 15 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmdk Disk: label: Hard disk 2 (size: 300 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM_1.vmdk VMwareTools: green VMware Tools is running and the version is current Comment: vRanger Pro Backup: Type [Full] Result [Success] Time [11/03/2010 4:07:21 PM] Repository [vRanger_4_Backups]
David.
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Sounds like you actually finished what I started trying to do :-) Xymonton would be an excellent place for it.
Please post.
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:19 AM, David Baldwin <david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au
wrote:
Ambati Srinivas wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Does some one can suggest point me to addon for monitoring ESX machine?
AM Apart from running hobbit/BBWin/BBNT on the VM itself, I have a script that monitors all VMs, does RRDs of memory usage (using devmon collector). It uses the vSphere SDK (originally built against viperl). It reports all non-discovered VMs under a test for the VirtualCenter host. Checks a bunch of stuff - conditions that prevent VMotion such as connected physical hardware, old/large snapshots that might fill the datastore (that is really ugly when it happens), old versions of VMWare tools, tools not running, mismatched IP with bb-hosts, NIC types (we have issues with Flexible/PCNet32 NICs drop off the network when tools don't start properly), etc.
It would need a bit of cleaning up but I could put it on http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/monitors
Sample report:
ESX VM Status (ESX VM status vm.ausport.gov.au)
Status: yellow The entity might have a problem
VM name: VM
Hostname: evvsv.ausport.gov.au Guest name: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit) VM path name: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmx Status: yellow The entity might have a problem IP: 1.2.3.4 Power State: green poweredOn CPUs: 4 Memory: 3064 MB CPU resources: shares: 8000 reservation: 0 limit: green -1 Memory resources: shares: 30640 reservation: 0 limit: green 3064 Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualFloppy: /dev/fd0 Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualCdrom: Remote ATAPI Connectable Device: green disconnected VirtualParallelPort: /dev/parport0 NIC: green connected (type: VirtualVmxnet2) Net: Production_Servers (MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) Disk: label: Hard disk 1 (size: 15 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM.vmdk Disk: label: Hard disk 2 (size: 300 GB) fileName: [ESX_DS] VM/VM_1.vmdk VMwareTools: green VMware Tools is running and the version is current Comment: vRanger Pro Backup: Type [Full] Result [Success] Time [11/03/2010 4:07:21 PM] Repository [vRanger_4_Backups]
David.
-- David Baldwin - IT Unit Australian Sports Commission www.ausport.gov.au Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616 david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617
Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit http://www.ausport.gov.au
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