On 05/08, James Whittington wrote: > I'm just curious what sort of vmware you are trying to monitor?
ESX 3.5 > In my experience more recent versions of ESX and ESXi had limited snmp > support and all the good performance data has to be polled through the > web interface. > > I have had success using check_esx3 by Op5 developer.. > http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=2848.html;d=1 > > It requires that the Infrastructure Perl Toolkit is installed on your > monitoring server but the install is very easy. The Systems group here manages the ESX servers, and already had SNMP set up on them for their monitoring purposes. I mainly wanted to see the performance of my group's vmhosts from vmware's perspective, without inconveniencing the ESX admins. Do you know if that has any facility to "follow" VMs as they're VMmotion'ed to other VM hosts? Or, is it querying against the centralized vCenter server? > I can watch resource utilization across the esx host server and get a > list of VM's and their status. Thanks for the pointer. The help output shows lots of interesting metrics. I'll look at how invasive it'll be for this to be installed on the servers. -j -- Jason Lavoie Ratvarre sbe uver [email protected] _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/listinfo/opsview-users
