Cacti

i want to share a (unusual) way to get to some metrics of vmware ESX (don't know if it would work with ESXi) I was trying to get my hands on the hardware sensors (temperature) and here is how i've done it: First in ESX there is a webpage of every host which can be accessed here: https://<esx-server-...

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Hi Mamema,

Good to see it was useful. Out of interest how many VM's are you polling? What is the load on your cacti server like?

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polling 25 machines. load on cacti server is constantly on 50% CPU

is there any template where we logon to vcenter and read through all the vms located in that vcenter? I'm sure someone could write a script that polled the vcentre which returned all the VMs and then created collectors for all the VMs. To be honest if you add them one at a time and then keep on top...

Yes, you're right. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Problem solved

implemented wmi and got it up and running, script runs on command line and gives values back. Now i want to activate the windows memory usage template (v. 0.6 from first posting) and get: /usr/bin/rrdtool graph - \ --imgformat=PNG \ --start=-86400 \ --end=-300 \ --title="Name of Computer - Memo...