Monitor VMware ESXi?

[jnojr]

I searched, but that got me 30,000 results, none of which appeared to be relevant, so...

Is anyone monitoring CPU, RAM, disk, network, etc. for an ESXi server?

[BSOD2600]

I believe this info is available via snmp.... should be user created scripts/templates already. If not, you can learn how to make them: http://docs.cacti.net/

[jnojr]

I believe this info is available via snmp

ESXi does not have an SNMP implementation other than sending traps, from what I can tell. Hence my question.

Is anyone actually doing this?

[apperrault]

There is a way you can enable SNMP on ESX3i. Let me dig up the way to do it. I will post a link shortly.

app

[apperrault]

here is how you do it. I have done this on all of my ESX3i servers and it works great.

app

http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/arti ... nsole.html

app

[jnojr]

Thanks, apperrault. I know about the "hidden" console, and have enabled SSH so I don't have to mess with it But everything I find about SNMP says that it does not support gets. If you got your server to respond to regular SNMP gets, could you share how? I am at the most recent firmware ( build 158869 )

[jnojr]

BTT, still looking for info on how to monitor ESXi with cacti.

[jnojr]

BTT

[apperrault]

hey there,
I was wrong. I do not have my ESXi servers on Cacti. I thought i did, but it was Nagios that has them for monitoring. I am running into the same problems you are with adding them to Cacti. Sorry for the confusion.

app

[X505]

http://www.hypervisor.fr/?p=424
it's in french but easy to translate

[jnojr]

http://www.hypervisor.fr/?p=424
it's in french but easy to translate

Holy Cow, thanks X505!!! My French is more than a little rusty but I can muddle through enough

[jnojr]

http://www.hypervisor.fr/wp-content/upl ... 1/esxi.xml is the template

http://www.hypervisor.fr/wp-content/upl ... 1/esxi.zip is a collection of four Perl scripts.

[patters]

How do I compile the NAGIOS plugin for Windows?
I discovered that you can't use the ActiveState Perl provided by the VI Perl Toolkit - Makefile.PL doesn't like the Perl binary path containing spaces I think.
So I've set up ActivePerl on a separate machine and installed nmake. I got the makefile created ok and installed the dependencies using ppm.

But when I try and test the compile I get this:

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C:\temp\Nagios-Plugin-0.30>nmake test

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.

cp lib/Nagios/Plugin/ExitResult.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin\ExitResult.pm
cp lib/Nagios/Plugin/Functions.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin\Functions.pm
cp lib/Nagios/Plugin/Threshold.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin\Threshold.pm
cp lib/Nagios/Plugin/Range.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin\Range.pm
cp lib/Nagios/Plugin/Getopt.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin\Getopt.pm
cp lib/Nagios/Plugin/Performance.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin\Performance.pm
cp lib/Nagios/Plugin/Config.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin\Config.pm
cp lib/Nagios/Plugin.pm blib\lib\Nagios\Plugin.pm
        C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'bl
ib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t/*.t
t/check_stuff.....................ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-01................ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-02................ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-03................ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-04................ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Functions-01......ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Functions-02......ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Functions-03......ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Getopt-01.........ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Getopt-02.........ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Getopt-03.........ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Getopt-04.........ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Performance-02....ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Performance.......ok 1/149
#   Failed test 'warn okay'
#   at t/Nagios-Plugin-Performance.t line 219.
#          got: '-1.1e-005:0.001'
#     expected: '-1.1e-05:0.001'

#   Failed test 'warn okay'
#   at t/Nagios-Plugin-Performance.t line 221.
#          got: '430:4.3e+025'
#     expected: '430:4.3e+25'
t/Nagios-Plugin-Performance.......NOK 135/149# Looks like you failed 2 tests of
149.
t/Nagios-Plugin-Performance.......dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
DIED. FAILED tests 133, 135
        Failed 2/149 tests, 98.66% okay
t/Nagios-Plugin-Range.............ok
t/Nagios-Plugin-Threshold.........ok
Failed Test                   Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/Nagios-Plugin-Performance.t    2   512   149    2  133 135
Failed 1/16 test scripts. 2/881 subtests failed.
Files=16, Tests=881,  8 wallclock secs ( 0.00 cusr +  0.00 csys =  0.00 CPU)
Failed 1/16 test programs. 2/881 subtests failed.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0xff'
Stop.

C:\temp\Nagios-Plugin-0.30>

I'm presuming that -1.1e-005:0.001 is equal to -1.1e-05:0.001, and it's just a minor formatting difference in the versions of Perl so I've compiled it and it seems to be installed. The problem is that it won't install on VI Perl Toolkit.
Can I just transplant the files? I'm guessing not...

[mk6032]

http://www.hypervisor.fr/wp-content/upl ... 1/esxi.xml is the template

http://www.hypervisor.fr/wp-content/upl ... 1/esxi.zip is a collection of four Perl scripts.

If you have multiple esxi servers with different root passwords, hostnames, etc.. how do you input the values into the data input method individually? Hopefully I didn't overlook something obvious.

[bushidoka]

Anyone do any serious playing with this yet?

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/

I think some of the other tools listed here use this kit, but I'm just wondering if anyone has played with it more directly.