Hey guys,

How do you install this? It is a lot of work to install compilers and the lot on an esx server but a binary only install of the hobbit client is possible. how???

At this moment we monitor our ESX servers by BigBrother Professional edition (binary only install) and in combination with the hp supportpack for vmware this includes monitoring on the hardware layer. still playing around with esx-top and vdf.

p.s. esx 2.54 is RHEL3 and esx 3 is RHEL4 support by vmware is not that big of an issue. You only need one box without the monitor/thirdparty software for support purposes (worst case scenario).

Lee Garner wrote:

It works fine. The service console is RHEL.

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Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me.

Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate

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Henrik Stoerner a écrit :

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:02:02PM -0500, Jason Chambers wrote:

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Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me.

Possible, but as I understand from our ESX guys you cannot install any kind of 3rd-party software on the ESX host without voiding your support agreement.

In fact, ESX servers is one of the targets for my SNMP-based monitoring tool right now.

this is not the only os with such restrictive stuff, and I guess I'm not the only one to use a hobbit client on ESX server or other restricted OS.

anyway, this is the admin's responsibility.

I compiled a static hobbit client for an RHEL 3. It runs quite fine on esx server. if anyone is interested, I can send it via email.

Henrik