We use esxi that does not allow you to install anything on the hosts.
However, vmware does provide you wth a Perl-library
(http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/) so that you
can query your esx(i)-servers about load, network traffic, disk usage
etc. You query with the library, the virtualcenter server.
We made a Xymon check on the Xymon serer (very quick and dirty) but I
do have some graphs and info now that is very informative without
logging in into the vmware console. Just the normal, plain, very
informative XYmon, yahoo!
Any chance you could share what you did? It would be good to collaborate on this as it definitely seems to be a market need.
Thanks,
Malcolm
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