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list Michael Levitre · Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:28:28 -0400 ·
Do you guys have a tool for network monitoring for VM's?

 
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list Josh Luthman · Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:06:05 -0400 ·
At the moment I simply put the hobbit client on each guest and the host.
There is something for VMware server I believe...

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 Do you guys have a tool for network monitoring for VM’s?


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list Rdeal · Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:11:21 -0400 ·
I put the client on all the virtual machines and for the esx server it self
you can enable SNMP and use vmesx extension test:
http://www.deadcat.net/viewfile.php?fileid=1048


From: Michael Levitre <user-5b40250d0547@xymon.invalid>
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Subject: [hobbit] Setting this up and monitoring VM Servers?

Do you guys have a tool for network monitoring for VM¹s?
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list Vernon Everett · Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:23:00 +0800 ·
I started putting something together for Devmon to pull infor from the VMWare host using SNMP.
Then we did a reorg here at work, and suddenly we had way more work than we could handle, and no time to play with things like Devmon modules.
I posted my (incomplete) work on the list, in the hope somebody would take over, but I know of no takers.

Search the archive for me, Devmon and ESX. You should find it there somewhere.

Regards
     V
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Subject: Re: [hobbit] Setting this up and monitoring VM Servers?

At the moment I simply put the hobbit client on each guest and the host.  There is something for VMware server I believe...

Josh Luthman
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Michael Levitre <user-5b40250d0547@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-5b40250d0547@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

Do you guys have a tool for network monitoring for VM's?


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list T.J. Yang · Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:36:10 -0500 ·
quoted from Vernon Everett
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To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:23:00 +0800
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Setting this up and monitoring VM Servers?


I started putting something together for Devmon to pull
infor from the VMWare host using SNMP.

Then we did a reorg here at work, and suddenly we had way
more work than we could handle, and no time to play with things like Devmon
modules.

I posted my (incomplete) work on the list, in the hope
somebody would take over, but I know of no takers.

Search the archive for me, Devmon and ESX. You should find
it there somewhere.
I did try out devmon some time ago but I don't have urgent need to monitor snmp devices.
and stop putting time into devmon since Henrik is working on snmp query/monitoring in 4.(3/4).0 version.


tj
quoted from Vernon Everett

Regards

V


From: Josh Luthman
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Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Subject: Re: [hobbit] Setting
this up and monitoring VM Servers?


At the moment I simply put the hobbit client on each guest and the
host. There is something for VMware server I believe...

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX

1100
quoted from Vernon Everett
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impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Michael Levitre>
wrote:


Do you guys have a tool for
network monitoring for VM’s?


Michael
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list Buchan Milne · Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:37:15 +0200 ·
quoted from T.J. Yang
On Thursday 25 June 2009 13:36:10 T.J. Yang wrote:
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:23:00 +0800
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Setting this up and monitoring VM Servers?


I started putting something together for Devmon to pull
infor from the VMWare host using SNMP.

Then we did a reorg here at work, and suddenly we had way
more work than we could handle, and no time to play with things like
Devmon modules.

I posted my (incomplete) work on the list, in the hope
somebody would take over, but I know of no takers.

Search the archive for me, Devmon and ESX. You should find
it there somewhere.
I did try out devmon some time ago but I don't have urgent need to monitor
snmp devices. and stop putting time into devmon since Henrik is working on
snmp query/monitoring in 4.(3/4).0 version.
Well, besides the most basic network interface utilisation graphs, NBAR protocol utilisation graphs, QoS graphs, and monitoring and graphing of CPU and memory usage on all network devices, we use devmon for:

-monitoring HP ProLiant:
--RAID array status
--Fan status
--Temperature (with graphs)
--Integrated Management Log
--Power supply status

We have replaced a number of power supplies which had intermittent problems that would not otherwise have been easily picked up.

-Monitoring for Dell PowerEdge:
--RAID array status
--Fan status
--Temperature (with graphs)
--Power supply status

-Radius servers:
--Monitoring per-RADIUS-client accounting and authentication requests

-Linux servers:
--Red Hat cluster status
--Per-Disk IO graphs

-Firewalls:
--Graph of connections
--Monitoring of cluster status

-Load balancer (templates still in progress)
--Connections to each real server
--Connections to the virtual server
--Server farm status

Anti-spam appliances:
--CPU utilisation
--Fans
--Keys for licensed features (e.g., warn when expiration imminent)
--Memory
--Power supplies
--RIAD arrays
--Resources  (graphs of disk io, open files, and threads)
--Temperatures (with graphs)

One of my colleagues is using devmon for agent-less monitoring of Windows servers (using microsoft-win2k3server template available in svn). Some agentless monitoring is also available for Linux (e.g., linux-netsnmp or linux-openwrt templates)

In most cases, templates can be developed quite easily. The VMWare case seems to be a bit difficult, as the IDs they use as indexes in some of the SNMP tables don't match up to the IDs they use as indexes in other tables.

Now, while MRTG can do some of this, most of the more complex templates (ProLiant IML, RAID for ProLiant and PowerEdge, Cisco CSM load balancer) I think can not be done with MRTG, and while they can be done with Cacti with some effort, there's no decent integration with any monitoring system.

AFAICT, most of the work done on Xymon for SNMP is following the (not so great) MRTG model. And besides, I get all the features Xymon's SNMP support will bring in future right now.

And, using the data, I can do things like this:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/weathermap/
(every link that is not grey would have a pup-up to the Hobbit graph of e.g. network utilisation, and any host with a background colour to the text will have popup of a Hobbit service graph - conn by default - it works fine from inside our network, but won't work from outside it now).

I am trying to finish up this code so I can publish a final version.

Besides that, I think we are just about monitoring everything we can monitor with SNMP, at this stage the only think I can do to monitor more things via SNMP with devmon is to start filing bugs on SNMP agents (e.g. net-snmp can monitor mail queues, but only for sendmail, and we are running postfix on anything with more than a trivial queue on it).

Regards,
Buchan
list Gavin Leonard · Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:27:42 -0600 ·
So Xymon release 4.4.0 will have built in Dev mon?  that is great news if its true.

-Gavin
quoted from T.J. Yang


-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:36 AM
To: hobbit system monitoring
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Setting this up and monitoring VM Servers?

From: user-9da1a1882f49@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:23:00 +0800
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Setting this up and monitoring VM Servers?


I started putting something together for Devmon to pull
infor from the VMWare host using SNMP.

Then we did a reorg here at work, and suddenly we had way
more work than we could handle, and no time to play with things like Devmon
modules.

I posted my (incomplete) work on the list, in the hope
somebody would take over, but I know of no takers.

Search the archive for me, Devmon and ESX. You should find
it there somewhere.
I did try out devmon some time ago but I don't have urgent need to monitor snmp devices.
and stop putting time into devmon since Henrik is working on snmp query/monitoring in 4.(3/4).0 version.


tj

Regards

V


From: Josh Luthman
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Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2009
2:06 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Setting
this up and monitoring VM Servers?


At the moment I simply put the hobbit client on each guest and the
host. There is something for VMware server I believe...

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
1100
Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the
impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
---
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Michael Levitre>
wrote:


Do you guys have a tool for
network monitoring for VM's?


Michael
Levitre


IT
Coordinator


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Solutions


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Direct


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Mobile


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Fax


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list Harold J. Ballinger · Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:50:13 -0400 ·
Small world...

We use bbclt on the ESX host - along with some externals to monitor the actual hardware (i.e. OpenManage & RAID, etc.). We are also implementing the following custom EXTs for our ESX hosts (will be posted to DeadCat once complete):

- a modified "vdf" to output the vmfs information to a vmdisk column
- parse "vmware-cmd -l", "vmware-cmd VMNAME getstate", and "vmware-cmd VMNAME getheartbeat" to provide a vmrun column
- a modified "du -h" to output the snapshot & vm file sizes & usage to a vmfile column

We are also working on SNMP, but prefer using an EXT where possible.

We use BBWIN on our Windows guests and BBCLT on the non-Windows guests with every EXT that we can lay our hands on or custom develop.


 
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list dOCtoR MADneSs · Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:08:58 +0200 ·
quoted from Harold J. Ballinger
Harold J. Ballinger a écrit :
Small world...

We use bbclt on the ESX host - along with some externals to monitor the actual hardware (i.e. OpenManage & RAID, etc.). We are also implementing the following custom EXTs for our ESX hosts (will be posted to DeadCat once complete):

- a modified "vdf" to output the vmfs information to a vmdisk column
- parse "vmware-cmd -l", "vmware-cmd VMNAME getstate", and "vmware-cmd VMNAME getheartbeat" to provide a vmrun column
- a modified "du -h" to output the snapshot & vm file sizes & usage to a vmfile column

We are also working on SNMP, but prefer using an EXT where possible.

We use BBWIN on our Windows guests and BBCLT on the non-Windows guests with every EXT that we can lay our hands on or custom develop.


 Harold J. Ballinger, MCSE, MCNE
IT Coordinator
Heritage Healthcare, Inc.
XXX Old Howell Rd, Greenville SC XXXXX
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Visit our website: www.heritage-healthcare.com 

Hi,

You could also post your monitor scripts to Xymonton !
http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php

Regards.