State of the art for monitoring ESXi hosts?
Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little content from several years ago.
It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?
-- Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska
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I managed to get bb-ESXi working for a while last year. It looked useful, but I turned it off due to restrictions on what I can do with ESXi. I may run it past our Windows support people (for the 4th time) and see if they're interested in it.
Ralph Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:
I'd be interested in that as well. I abandoned those particular tests a while ago because they didn't give much info.
Kris Springer
On 01/31/2018 11:07 AM, John Thurston wrote:
Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little content from several years ago.
It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
I used to use bb-esx, which I had modified and renamed xymon-esx. Upgrading to ESXi 6.x broke it, if I remember correctly.
I ended up using devmon with connecting to the ESXi server. That gives me interface stats and states of the VMs (power, location, OS, and status). And IPMI connecting to the ILO of the hardware, providing disk, temperature, fan, power supply.
And a custom script that looks at the hardware raid.
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Kris Springer Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:02 PM To: John Thurston; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] State of the art for monitoring ESXi hosts?
I'd be interested in that as well. I abandoned those particular tests a while ago because they didn't give much info.
Kris Springer
On 01/31/2018 11:07 AM, John Thurston wrote: Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little content from several years ago.
It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?
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We run a CentOS VM with a standard xymon client install, we replace the xymonclient-linux.sh with a customised version that uses esx-cli to report on CPU (along with guest VM status), disk, and memory from the ESXi host. We then have xymon extensions that report on disk consolidation, open snapshots, temperature of host hardware (with a graph), and status of host hardware (last two from the sensors view in esxi). We have one VM running on each host so that purple will alert us if the host goes down and we store the VM on the local datastore so that we get alerts if a shared datastore goes offline for a particular host. Has been working since ESXi 5, works fine on 6.5. Happy to share if requested, although the code isn't very pretty!
Thanks, JT
From: John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov> To: xymon at xymon.com Date: 01/02/18 06:08 Subject: [Xymon] State of the art for monitoring ESXi hosts? Sent by: "Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>
Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little content from several years ago.
It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?
-- Do things because you should, not just because you can.
John Thurston 907-465-8591 John.Thurston at alaska.gov Department of Administration State of Alaska
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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john.thurston＠alaska.gov
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jtrott＠dancrai.com
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kspringer＠innovateteam.com
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Paul.Root＠CenturyLink.com
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ralphmitchell＠gmail.com