[Request] Template ESXi 6.x standalone with Cacti 1.2.x

[oijkn]

Hi all,

VMware (vSphere 5 or higher) has dropped support of SNMP. We can use CIM/SMASH in order to obtain hardware status, etc. We can use their API in order to obtain "higher level" performance stats like CPU utilization, Memory utilization, Disk IO, etc. AFAIK Cacti doesn't have a means for doing either of those.

Does any of you have a template to share to retrieve ESXi metrics without vCenter, please ?

Thank you for your help, regards.

[bmfmancini]

I dont know of any
Hoewver you could write one to pull the data using the script server
your script would call on the vcenter API to get the data and return it

[oijkn]

I dont know of any
Hoewver you could write one to pull the data using the script server
your script would call on the vcenter API to get the data and return it

Hi Sean,

Glad to see you here again

As I said it would be without using the vCenter, some of my ESXi are in standalone.

It's surprising that nothing exists for Cacti because it would interest a lot of people I guess

[TheWitness]

I think whole plugins have been written to streamline this, but not everyone shares.

[bmfmancini]

I dont know of any
Hoewver you could write one to pull the data using the script server
your script would call on the vcenter API to get the data and return it

Hi Sean,

Glad to see you here again

As I said it would be without using the vCenter, some of my ESXi are in standalone.

It's surprising that nothing exists for Cacti because it would interest a lot of people I guess

I am always here

Hey I didn't know they axed SNMP on 6.x

in fact I found this procedure to enable it

How to enable SNMP on ESXi 6.x

SSH or Telnet to your ESXi node using root-level credentials.
Execute the following commands. Replace YOUR_STRING with your desired community string.

esxcli system snmp set -r
esxcli system snmp set -c YOUR_STRING
esxcli system snmp set -p 161
esxcli system snmp set -L "City, State, Country"
esxcli system snmp set -C noc@example.com
esxcli system snmp set -e yes

If you selected a community string other than public or private, enter that string into Auvik by following these steps.
If in Step 2 you chose to “Apply these credentials to all devices we discover that meet the criteria below” ensure that:
Device Type = All Device Types
Vendor = All Vendors

Maybe give this a try ?

[camerabob]

I dont know of any
Hoewver you could write one to pull the data using the script server
your script would call on the vcenter API to get the data and return it

Hi Sean,

Glad to see you here again

As I said it would be without using the vCenter, some of my ESXi are in standalone.

It's surprising that nothing exists for Cacti because it would interest a lot of people I guess

I am always here

Hey I didn't know they axed SNMP on 6.x

in fact I found this procedure to enable it

How to enable SNMP on ESXi 6.x

SSH or Telnet to your ESXi node using root-level credentials.
Execute the following commands. Replace YOUR_STRING with your desired community string.

esxcli system snmp set -r
esxcli system snmp set -c YOUR_STRING
esxcli system snmp set -p 161
esxcli system snmp set -L "City, State, Country"
esxcli system snmp set -C noc@example.com
esxcli system snmp set -e yes

If you selected a community string other than public or private, enter that string into Auvik by following these steps.
If in Step 2 you chose to “Apply these credentials to all devices we discover that meet the criteria below” ensure that:
Device Type = All Device Types
Vendor = All Vendors

Maybe give this a try ?

See the links in my signature.

[MABP]

See the links in my signature.

Hi there,
i try to use you templates, thats show in you signature
download/file.php?id=36808

and i recive some error - when i try to import the esxi_cpu.xml and esxi_hw.xml the system says that
"IMPORT parse_xml_hash ERROR wrong hash format for hash: name" for both files.

what it's can it mean?
and may be you can explain why it's hapening.


Sorry for my English .

[camerabob]

Hit my links: http://www.camerabob.com/cacti

Download the ESXI .zip file and try that. The link you posted was a part of the total package.

[MABP]

Hit my links: http://www.camerabob.com/cacti

Download the ESXI .zip file and try that. The link you posted was a part of the total package.

Hi
Yes, I downloaded exactly these files
and when importing the esxi_cpu & hw file, I get an error with an incorrect hash
I'm using Cacti 1.2.19

[streitleak]

Hit my links: http://www.camerabob.com/cacti

Download the ESXI .zip file and try that. The link you posted was a part of the total package.

Looks your site is down.

And in the Zip file. 2 files can't import. Log is showing parser "name" is error.

[camerabob]

Yes, my site is down. Thank Verizon. Anyhow, I don't know why you're getting any errors. I am currently using those templates on my system at this time.

[jamculi1]

Useful Information

[TheWitness]

Camerabob,

Is it okay to publish this in the 1.2.23 release of Cacti? I would need to get/find the multi-cpu average script. I'll be changing both to only pass in the device id.

TheWitness