[Xymon] State of the art for monitoring ESXi hosts?

[John Thurston]

Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and
VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see
a little content from several years ago.

It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?

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John Thurston 907-465-8591
***@alaska.gov
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

[Kris Springer]

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[Ralph Mitchell]

I managed to get bb-ESXi working for a while last year. It looked useful,
but I turned it off due to restrictions on what I can do with ESXi. I may
run it past our Windows support people (for the 4th time) and see if
they're interested in it.

Ralph Mitchell

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Kris Springer <***@innovateteam.com>
wrote:

> I'd be interested in that as well. I abandoned those particular tests a
> while ago because they didn't give much info.
>
> Kris Springer
>
>
>
> On 01/31/2018 11:07 AM, John Thurston wrote:
>
> Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare
> ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little
> content from several years ago.
>
> It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?
>
>
>
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[Root, Paul T]

I used to use bb-esx, which I had modified and renamed xymon-esx. Upgrading to ESXi 6.x broke it, if I remember correctly.

I ended up using devmon with connecting to the ESXi server. That gives me interface stats and states of the VMs (power, location, OS, and status).
And IPMI connecting to the ILO of the hardware, providing disk, temperature, fan, power supply.

And a custom script that looks at the hardware raid.

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I'd be interested in that as well. I abandoned those particular tests a while ago because they didn't give much info.

Kris Springer



On 01/31/2018 11:07 AM, John Thurston wrote:
Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little content from several years ago.

It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?

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[Chris Pretorius]

Will be very useful for us as well.

Regards

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I'd be interested in that as well. I abandoned those particular tests a while ago because they didn't give much info.

Kris Springer



On 01/31/2018 11:07 AM, John Thurston wrote:
Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see a little content from several years ago.

It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?

[Jonathan Trott]

We run a CentOS VM with a standard xymon client install, we replace the
xymonclient-linux.sh with a customised version that uses esx-cli to report
on CPU (along with guest VM status), disk, and memory from the ESXi host.
We then have xymon extensions that report on disk consolidation, open
snapshots, temperature of host hardware (with a graph), and status of host
hardware (last two from the sensors view in esxi).
We have one VM running on each host so that purple will alert us if the
host goes down and we store the VM on the local datastore so that we get
alerts if a shared datastore goes offline for a particular host.
Has been working since ESXi 5, works fine on 6.5.
Happy to share if requested, although the code isn't very pretty!

Thanks,
JT



From: John Thurston <***@alaska.gov>
To: ***@xymon.com
Date: 01/02/18 06:08
Subject: [Xymon] State of the art for monitoring ESXi hosts?
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Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and
VMWare ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I see
a little content from several years ago.

It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?

--
Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston 907-465-8591
***@alaska.gov
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

[Greg Earle]

On 31 Jan 2018, at 11:07 AM, John Thurston <***@alaska.gov>
wrote:

> Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and
> VMware ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I
> see
> a little content from several years ago.
>
> It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?

We set up our ESXi hosts (all 6.0 at the moment) to point their syslog
configs at our central syslog server, and then set up <syslog
server>.msgs red & yellow alerts from what we get out of that. Crude
but quasi-effective.

(In case you've never set it up, ESXi hosts emit a FLOOD of syslog
messages.)

- Greg

[Andreas Kunberger]

I'm using

Vmware-Monitor for Xymon (VMX) v1.3.1 from www.it-eckert.de<mailto:***@it-eckert.de>

with VMware ESXi 6.5.0


Andreas


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On 31 Jan 2018, at 11:07 AM, John Thurston <***@alaska.gov>
wrote:

> Can anyone offer a 'state of the art' statement regarding Xymon and
> VMware ESXi hosts (versions 6.0 and 6.5)? Looking in the archives, I
> see
> a little content from several years ago.
>
> It's now 2018. What are y'all monitoring, and how are ya' doing it?

We set up our ESXi hosts (all 6.0 at the moment) to point their syslog
configs at our central syslog server, and then set up <syslog
server>.msgs red & yellow alerts from what we get out of that. Crude
but quasi-effective.

(In case you've never set it up, ESXi hosts emit a FLOOD of syslog
messages.)

- Greg