Monitoring VMWare ESX

[Weazle]

In my environment i monitor a lot of esx hosts and esx guests. I use the vmware perl scripts witch i modified a little, and user the zabbix sender(perl version) to send information to my zabbix server.
These scripts run on my zabbix server
It works like a charm!

i monitor the following item form my datastores:
Associated Hosts
Available space
Datastore Location
Datastore name
Filesystem
Maximum capacity


from my esx host:
Boot time
Cpu model
Cpu speed
Cpu usage
Filesystem
Hostname
Network adapters
Maintenance mode
Memory Usage
VMotion
Physical memory
Software on host
Port number
Reboot required

and a lot of esx guest items.

I someone need more info i can provide this.

I am also very intersted

[tchjts1]

I am also very intersted

Ditto here

[Tristan]

Hello,

My manager won't allow me to post these scripts

but i can tell you what i have done.
Vmware has the remote cli and it contains some perl scripts for getting some hostinfo, datastore info, and vmware guest info. You can run these scripts from any server.

Some genius has written a zabbix sender perl script. So i used the vmware scripts, modified a bit, and use the zabbix sender perl script as a subroutine whitin it.

so you run the perl scripts from a host against your esx server, and the scripts sends the info to the zabbix server.

and ofcourse, i have created a template within zabbix.

I'm sorry i can't post the scripts here, but it's easy to do. Perl is not so hard te program.

[eger]

Hello,

My manager won't allow me to post these scripts

but i can tell you what i have done.
Vmware has the remote cli and it contains some perl scripts for getting some hostinfo, datastore info, and vmware guest info. You can run these scripts from any server.

Some genius has written a zabbix sender perl script. So i used the vmware scripts, modified a bit, and use the zabbix sender perl script as a subroutine whitin it.

so you run the perl scripts from a host against your esx server, and the scripts sends the info to the zabbix server.

and ofcourse, i have created a template within zabbix.

I'm sorry i can't post the scripts here, but it's easy to do. Perl is not so hard te program.

This is a good start. I am starting to work on this idea using the sender program from a host like the VMA appliance. If I make any headway I will post my scripts here.

[rizwank]

Scripts

Where can one find the VMWare half of the scripts?

[eger]

Where can one find the VMWare half of the scripts?

They are called the VCLI and VMA.

The VCLI are a set of perl scripts which come as a SDK which you can install on Windows or Linux.

The VMA is an appliance you install as a VM to use the scripts.

Both can get information from vCenter or from ESX hosts directly.

VCLI: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/
VMA: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/

[gavind]

Thanks for that link. I like it this way, especially I can run the vicfg- commands.