hobbit client on esx server?

Hello all,

Has someone use the VI Perl Toolkit from vmware  VI Perl Toolkit Programming
Guide<http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/viperl16/doc/viperl_proggd.pdf>to
monitor the esxi ? ESX i ( the free version) don't have a console so
we
can't run the xymon client. I'm trying to convert a nagios esx  script
version
http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/op5plugins.git;a=blob_plain;f=check_esx3.pl;hb=HEAD
 . But if someone have already done it  or have a better idea could
save me
some time and of other friends too.


Thanks in advance,

Mario.


On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jon Dustin <user-d8c63a8259c1@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 1/15/2008 at 4:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:02:02PM -0500, Jason Chambers wrote:

Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me.

Possible, but as I understand from our ESX guys you cannot install any
kind of 3rd-party software on the ESX host without voiding your support
agreement.

In fact, ESX servers is one of the targets for my SNMP-based monitoring
tool right now.

This is an interesting "warning"...  If I am ever on the phone to VMWare
Support, I will make sure to "forget" the Hobbit client is running!

I am currently running the Hobbit client on 7 ESX 3.01 boxes, without any
problems. I compiled the client on another server, then merely unzipped it
on ESX, and adjusted the startup script. I also made a custom test that runs
esxtop and parses the output to determine the "real" CPU load.
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