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From: White, Bruce [mailto:user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:26 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers

 
Hi all,

 
I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top [esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and have found that most of the fields listed in VM’s MIBs are not populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring ESX servers via SNMP?

 
Thanks in advance,

Bruce

 
 Bruce White

 
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From: Jim Sloan [mailto:user-682ab7a92de7@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 1:47 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers

 
I’ve been running stock CentOS/RedHat binaries on my 50+ ESX servers with only the VDF and ESXTOP mods in the CFG and sudoers with no problems.  It works in ESX 3.5 as well as vSphere 4

 
Jim Sloan

Chief Systems Architect - Corporate IT

S1 Corporation

Tel (direct): +X XXX XXX XXXX

Tel (switchboard): +X XXX XXX XXXX

user-682ab7a92de7@xymon.invalid

www.s1.com

 
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From: White, Bruce [mailto:user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:26 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers

 
Hi all,

 
I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top [esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and have found that most of the fields listed in VM’s MIBs are not populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring ESX servers via SNMP?

 
Thanks in advance,

Bruce

 
 Bruce White

 Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX | Fax: XXX-XXX-XXXX | user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid | www.fellowes.com <http://www.fellowes.com/>; 
 
  
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From: "user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid" <user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid>
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Sent: Mon, December 21, 2009 4:56:32 PM
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers

 
Thanks Jim Sloan
We will setup a trial of it over the next few weeks.
 
Thanks,
 
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[mailto:user-682ab7a92de7@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 1:47 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers
 
I’ve been running stock CentOS/RedHat binaries on my 50+ ESX
servers with only the VDF and ESXTOP mods in the CFG and sudoers with no
problems.  It works in ESX 3.5 as well as vSphere 4
 
Jim Sloan
Chief Systems Architect - Corporate IT
S1 Corporation
Tel (direct): +X XXX XXX XXXX
Tel (switchboard): +X XXX XXX XXXX
user-682ab7a92de7@xymon.invalid
www.s1.com
 
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[mailto:user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:26 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers
 
Hi
all,
 
I
saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering if there
is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it appeared
that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the Xymon (hobbit)
client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top [esxtop] commands) on
their ESX servers despite the warning that it may void your
support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and have
found that most of the fields listed in VM’s MIBs are not populated.  So,
are people still running modified versions of the hobbit client without
issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring ESX servers
via SNMP?
 
Thanks
in advance,
Bruce
 
 
 Bruce
White
 Senior Enterprise Systems
Engineer | Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX | Fax: XXX-XXX-XXXX | user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid
| www.fellowes.com
 
 
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I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering
if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it
appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the
Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top
[esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may
void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and
have found that most of the fields listed in VM's MIBs are not
populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit
client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring
ESX servers via SNMP?

I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering
if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it
appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the
Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top
[esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may
void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and
have found that most of the fields listed in VM's MIBs are not
populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit
client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring
ESX servers via SNMP?

Because of the support issues with Xymon on the service console and the limitations of SNMP, we're looking to using a vMA as a proxy for the ESX hosts. It's early days yet, but it looks quite feasible.

Malcolm


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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!

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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, White, Bruce wrote:

Hi all,


I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering
if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it
appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the
Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top
[esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may
void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and
have found that most of the fields listed in VM's MIBs are not
populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit
client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring
ESX servers via SNMP?


Thanks in advance,

Bruce


Bruce White
Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX | Fax: XXX-XXX-XXXX | user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid | http://www.fellowes.com/


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From: White, Bruce [mailto:user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 1:26 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Xymon monitoring of ESX servers

Hi all,

I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top [esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and have found that most of the fields listed in VM’s MIBs are not populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring ESX servers via SNMP?

Thanks in advance,
Bruce


 Bruce White

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Hi Bruce, list,

I'm in the last stages of building a vmware monitoring extension for xymon
that does not require any changes to the ESX-hosts monitored. It uses the
vMA
(more precisely the vCLI installed on the vMA) to fetch the information
from
the vmware hosts (see below for a list of features).

My apologies to the list for announcing both a not-yet-public-available
and a "light-commercial" extension here.

This thing is named "Vmware-Monitor for Xymon (VMX)" and requires the
following environment:
- vMA with hobbit- or xymon-client installed (hobbit-4.2.0 w/o all-in-one
   patch works fine)
- xymon-server with working user-channel and a working >=gawk-3.1.3
- in particular _no_ vCenter is needed (as a nice side-effect monitoring
of
   vmware-server-2.0.x-hosts is possible too)
The names of the VMs should be identical to their hostnames.

Currently the following features are implemented (short version):
- central configuration of VMware-monitoring on the XYmon server 
- current CPU- and memory-usage, both of the ensemble of all hosts and for
   each individual VMware host and running VM (and graphical trending of
these
   and more of course)
- per VM status-page with info about VMDKs, vCPUs, memory, ... and
   vmware-tools (along with additional infos if tools are running)
- overview and tracking of virtual machines on each VMware host, no matter
   if the VM was moved by vmotion, DRS, manually added/removed, ...
   So it's possible to easily determine when a VM was started or stopped
on a
   particular host!
- warning if a host is in maintainance-mode or has the "reboot-needed"
flag
   set
- vMEM/pMEM-ratio, i.e. how much of the physically available RAM is
assigned
   to the running VMs
- one-click overview/summary for the following metrics:
 	o number of monitored hosts (along with software version and
patch-level)
 	o number of running VMs
 	o total CPU (MHz) available
 	o CPU (MHz) used
 	o total vCPU-count running
 	o total physical RAM available
 	o virtual RAM used (both "hostmemoryusage" and "guestmemoryusage")
- ressource friendly: low monitoring overhead due to non-forking design on
   the server-side and minimized disk-access to avoid I/O problems
- all status-pages are hyperlinked to each other so navigation from the
   overview-page down to a particular VM is quick and easy

The roadmap for possible additional features currently contains (no
particular
order):
- disk-IO
- network-IO
- duplicate VM detection
- configuration of alarm-triggers (e.g. for high cpu-/mem-usage)

Currently a ESX-cluster with 7 ESX 3.5 hosts is monitored without
problems.
ESX 4 / vSphere has been verified to work too as.


Documentation is not complete yet but installation instructions,
explanation
of the status columns generated and graphing-details and -options are
already
written.

This extension will be available at a very affordable price. Of course a
portion of the revenues will go to Henrik for providing XYmon at all --
the
"best monitoring solution"(tm).

If you are interested (either in getting an e-mail with the official
announcement, in beta-testing or if you have questions) please let me know
off-list.


A Happy New Year to you all,

 	Thomas


On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, White, Bruce wrote:

Hi all,


I saw a couple of threads on this topic from January and was wondering
if there is any newer insight into this question.   At that time, it
appeared that many were just installing a RedHat based version of the
Xymon (hobbit) client (with modifications to  the df [vdf] and top
[esxtop] commands) on their ESX servers despite the warning that it may
void your support.   I have started down the SNMP monitoring path and
have found that most of the fields listed in VM's MIBs are not
populated.  So, are people still running modified versions of the hobbit
client without issue?   Has anyone made any real progress on monitoring
ESX servers via SNMP?


Thanks in advance,

Bruce


Bruce White
Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX | Fax:

XXX-XXX-XXXX | user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid | http://www.fellowes.com/

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This extension will be available at a very affordable price. Of course a
portion of the revenues will go to Henrik for providing XYmon at all --
the
"best monitoring solution"(tm).

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On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Malcolm Hunter wrote:

This extension will be available at a very affordable price. Of course a
portion of the revenues will go to Henrik for providing XYmon at all --
the
"best monitoring solution"(tm).

Oh apologies, I didn't realise you'd already made arrangements and discussed this with Henrik.

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