VMWare ESX

VMware ESX is nothing but a slightly modified RedHat. Maybe you could
try and use the RedHat hobbit client.

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:23 -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:

VMware ESX provides SNMP support, so it is likely that devmon can be used to query the data and report it to Hobbit.  I dabbled with some shell scripts to capture the info, but didn't get too far... :(

Jon Dustin wrote:

Greetings -

I have been using Hobbit since summer 2006 (and Big Brother for about

10 years prior). GREAT system, my appreciation to Henrik and the
community.

I am evaluating how to monitor our VMWare ESX boxes with Hobbit. I
would like to have ESX report the "standard" set of data (cpu, disk,
memory, msgs, procs, trends) and have Hobbit graph the data
appropriately. As some of you may know, ESX is its "own" OS, with
slightly different management tools for reporting on the VM GUEST
sessions. There are appropriate analogies for top, ps, df, etc.
It seems this might best be handled by sending a "client data" report
to Hobbit, and masquerading ESX to "look" similar to a Linux box. > > Is this feasible? Any potential problems? I have looked for some
documentation on the client report, to no avail. Or should I just look
at the Hobbit CLIENT source?
Thanks for any tips/tricks/traps.