hobbit client on esx server?
list Jason Chambers
Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me. Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +X XXX.XXX.XXXX #344 F +X XXX.XXX.XXXX Visit our user-be8ce7065ec5@xymon.invalid
list Lee Garner
It works fine. The service console is RHEL.
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On 1/15/08, Jason Chambers <user-3fa671c0a30d@xymon.invalid> wrote:Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me. Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +X XXX.XXX.XXXX #344 F +X XXX.XXX.XXXX Visit our user-be8ce7065ec5@xymon.invalid
list Joe Sloan
Last I checked it was a copy of a long obsolete redhat 7.1 - in any case, hobbit should work as expected. Joe
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Lee Garner wrote:It works fine. The service console is RHEL. On 1/15/08, Jason Chambers <user-3fa671c0a30d@xymon.invalid> wrote:Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me. Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +X XXX.XXX.XXXX #344 F +X XXX.XXX.XXXX Visit our user-be8ce7065ec5@xymon.invalid
list Henrik Størner
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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. Henrik
list Gé Janssen
Hey guys, How do you install this? It is a lot of work to install compilers and the lot on an esx server but a binary only install of the hobbit client is possible. how??? At this moment we monitor our ESX servers by BigBrother Professional edition (binary only install) and in combination with the hp supportpack for vmware this includes monitoring on the hardware layer. still playing around with esx-top and vdf. p.s. esx 2.54 is RHEL3 and esx 3 is RHEL4 support by vmware is not that big of an issue. You only need one box without the monitor/thirdparty software for support purposes (worst case scenario).
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Lee Garner wrote:It works fine. The service console is RHEL.Is it possible to do? It looks like a linux fork to me. Jason Chambers IT Help Desk Associate GEOSOFT INC. freedom to explore T +X XXX.XXX.XXXX #344 F +X XXX.XXX.XXXX
list Pkc_mls
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Henrik Stoerner a écrit :
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 not the only os with such restrictive stuff, and I guess I'm not the only one to use a hobbit client on ESX server or other restricted OS. anyway, this is the admin's responsibility. I compiled a static hobbit client for an RHEL 3. It runs quite fine on esx server. if anyone is interested, I can send it via email.
Henrik
list Buchan Milne
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On Tuesday 15 January 2008 23:30:34 Henrik Stoerner 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.
FYI, devmon in current svn (on sf.net) can be used to report some SNMP data to hobbit. So far, all I've worked on is the memory and disk checks, for net-snmp on OpenWRT (see templates/linux-openwrt). Regards, Buchan
list Jon Dustin
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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. -- -- Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME XXX-XXX-XXXX
list Mario Andre
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.
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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. -- -- Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME XXX-XXX-XXXX