ESXi 4.0 Hardware and Software Monitoring VMWare

[getUP]

Found it, the script doesn't accept our password as it contains characters Zabbix does not allow. I'll have a look at that tomorrow. Thanks for the input anyway.

[getUP]

Before we start, the timeout has been set at 30 seconds.

$ egrep "Timeout" /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf 
Timeout=30
TrapperTimeout=30

But running the zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl script always takes more than 30 seconds in our situation.

$ time /etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl ip password username
0

real	0m33.522s
user	0m14.250s
sys	0m0.147s

We're running this from a different location, so I can see we would probably have some latency but in general that's <10ms. Will it make that much of a difference if we would set up a different zabbix node closer to that VMWare host?

[getUP]

Ok, this is a massive workaround for something I could probably have done a lot easier. We're using 1.8.8 in our set up.

Before compiling Zabbix we changed the following files:
./src/zabbix_server/server.c:
line 252:
PARM_OPT, 1, 30},

- Changed 30 to 60

./src/zabbix_agent/zabbix_agentd.c:
line 318
PARM_OPT, 1, 30},

- Changed 30 to 60

As root run ./make clean.

As your Zabbix user, run:

killall zabbix_server
killall zabbix_agentd
./configure --enable-server --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --with-mysql --enable-agent

Then install with ./make install

Change the timeout to 60 in your configuration files and start both serviced again.

[getUP]

We've moved the monitoring of the VMware cluster to the management network but the data gathering still takes >30s. While we can rebuild zabbix_agentd on the monitoring server(s) I'd rather work on improving the speeds at which its running now.

Am I missing something here?

[dima_dm]

Am I missing something here?

Do your have in this installation high CPU load on Zabbix Server or ESXi hypervisor (>60%)?

[pc99096]

in our case (cca 20-25s response time) the cpu utilization on both esxi servers and zabbix virtual machine is below 10%

[dima_dm]

in our case (cca 20-25s response time) the cpu utilization on both esxi servers and zabbix virtual machine is below 10%

I have 10-15 sec execution time for zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl and 3-7 sec for zabbix_wbem_vmware.pl.
Zabbix on RHEL6 x86_64

[pc99096]

load average: 0.33, 0.20, 0.15
Cpu(s): 12.3%us, 0.9%sy, 0.1%ni, 84.5%id, 1.9%wa

time ./zabbix_wbem_vmware.pl
real 0m0.596s
user 0m0.115s
sys 0m0.177s


time ./zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl
real 0m20.828s
user 0m8.981s
sys 0m0.131s

[getUP]

That's strange. I've did my tests on two different nodes. Both virtualized but with different technologies (OpenVZ vs. Hyper-V). I'll add some more cores to it tomorrow. As soon as it runs I'm seeing CPU spiking to ~100%. How many cores do you have assigned to it?

Are you running VMware4 or 5? I've only tried version 5 but will get some version 4 nodes added tomorrow and post my results.

[pc99096]

it's just 1 2.66GHz core and it's esxi5

[dozentmi]

Здравствуйте!

Выложите пожалуйста пошаговую инструкцию как настраивать. Спасибо.

[dima_dm]

Здравствуйте!

Выложите пожалуйста пошаговую инструкцию как настраивать. Спасибо.

Читайте первое сообщение. Там все, что нужно, написано. Если не получается, попросите помощи у более опытных коллег. Либо задавайте вопросы по конкретным проблемам.

[renato-barbosa]

Problems using Scripts.

Hi dima_dm,
I know you made a good job.
But it not works for me.
I tries more than 4 days in the script and nothing.
If a ran:/etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl
Shows: 1
And if i ran: /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/performance/viperformance.pl --host vmware2 --server xxx --countertype net --samples 1 --instance "*" --username root --password xxxxxx
Message is: Server version unavailable at 'https://xxxx:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545.

I spent a LOT of hours tring to make it works. But still nothing.
I saw that this path: /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/performance/viperformance.pl in yous is diferente, but i tried to install the sdk perl 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 version, all of then use /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/performance/viperformance.pl and not /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/performance/viperformance.pl

I had intalled all requirements of SDK perl from vmware at this page: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/in...l_preface.html

My server is centos 5.5 64Bits and zabbix server works fine.

I need to put it on. Please help me.

Regards.

[dima_dm]

But it not works for me.
I tries more than 4 days in the script and nothing.
If a ran:/etc/zabbix/zabbix_perl_api_vmware.pl
Shows: 1
And if i ran: /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/performance/viperformance.pl --host vmware2 --server xxx --countertype net --samples 1 --instance "*" --username root --password xxxxxx
Message is: Server version unavailable at 'https://xxxx:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545.

Check that all required libs installed.

http://www.lkj.net/2009/09/vimservice-wsdl-cli-problems-with-server-version-unavailable/

[renato-barbosa]

Sorry for the delay to awnser.
Today was "out of service."
I did it that and the same problem.
Have de openssl-devel installed and nothing.
Have de SSleay instaled too.

Instaled packages:
openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-20.el5
openssl-devel-0.9.8e-20.el5
openssl-0.9.8e-20.el5
perl-Crypt-SSLeay.x86_64 0:0.51-11.el5

I tried at my ubuntu laptop and the same error.
"Server version unavailable at 'https://xxxxx:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545"

I can`t understand.

I have googgled and find nothing like this.

Have you seen it somewhere?

Thanks again.