I wasn't aware there was a problem, we have a mix of ESX4 and ESX5 servers and the scripts work just fine.

Let me know what you would like the scripts to do better and I can see if there is a way to make that happen

best regards Gudmo

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Tom Moore <Tom.Moore at sas.com> wrote:

It’s horribly broken as it’s a combination of esx4 monitor script and the esx5 script. One was written using the ESX perl API directly and the other was written using the API toolkit scripts.****

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I’ve spent a few weeks editing the files and still haven’t gotten to a point where I can combine them into one big script.****

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*From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:32 PM *To:* Ray Reuter *Cc:* Xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Monitoring of ESX5i servers****

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Tried this?****

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymonesxi/ ****

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:*

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Just wondering if anyone has a good way of monitoring the statistics of an ESX5i machine?

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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com> wrote:

I installed everything but running the script locally it seems I have missing perl modules on our ESX hosts. Not sure how to get them installed just yet and I did have to tweak the scripts as per the instructions but everything seems like it will work once I figure out the perl module issue.

If anyone has a helpful idea of how to do that I would appreciate the help.

Thanks

Ray

I haven't played with this in particular (or even very much with xymon in general) but I think you probably need the perl API stuff from vmware on your monitor host; you shouldn't need anything on your ESXi hosts; trying to install things there that don't come from vmware is likely to cause you much pain and problems.

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html

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I'm running the ESX monitor form http://www.it-eckert.de and there a lot of things that I like about it. As I'm sure most are doing, I monitor my VM's with the full Xymon client to pull back all the data; this application adds another 3 tests for your VM's. Vcpu, Vmem, and Vstatus, which I have mixed feelings about. It is however, nice to see what kind of resources you're using on your hypervisor per VM.

I had some install issues, which lead to my face hitting my palm, and I was able to get support for it from Thomas Eckert. He was even willing to SSH to my machine and look around, which is a big deal in my book. All in all, I really like it. It does a great job monitoring my ESX hosts and my Vcenter install. I have no complaints.

Jamison Maxwell Jamison at newasterisk.com

-----Original Message----- From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Betsy Schwartz Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 4:28 PM To: zGreenfelder Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring of ESX5i servers

We're using this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymonesxi/

working OK for us. RHEL5 on the xymon server, Xymon 4.3.7, esxi 5.0.0

Played around with this but didn't get it to work: http://www.it-eckert.de/final.html#Vmware-Monitor-Intro

Didn't try very hard, although the author offered help directly, as the first one seemed to be enough for what we needed at the moment.

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