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I don't mean to bother you but this is the last little bit left of my nagios rollout.
As for the new version; will it check the disk space of vmfs volumes?Statistics: Posted by dephiance — Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:02 pm
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After running check_esx for a couple days now all of the machines that were giving the error reading initially still do most of the time. All 4 have at least 12 VMs running on each. When host system load is light the the CPU usage sometimes is reported.
All of the host machines have 4 CPUs.
Statistics: Posted by dephiance — Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:58 am
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Basically, if you have a twin CPU box, you can get up to 200% (IE, 100% of 2 CPUs). This is nicely confusing and misleading, which is why the next version will either correct this to a 100% maximum, or else give it in number of CPUs used.
The 'Error reading' can happen if no guests are running. This can result in part of the mib tree being unavailable, and it looks as if the ESX mib is missing, giving the error.
Statistics: Posted by stevesh — Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:02 am
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Thanks for the tool! I'm having a bit of a problem with the CPU reporting. 4 ESX hosts are not reporting CPU usage ("Error reading CPU usage information.") and 1 host reports the same error sometimes and at other times has a CPU utilization of 103.09% or similar. 1 host is reporting CPU usage properly. This is with ESX 2.5.2 and check_esx version 1.4. Could you give me some tips to try and fix this?
Statistics: Posted by dephiance — Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:36 am
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I came across this page while trying to find out how to use MRTG and vmware. I have a windows XP host running VMWare workstation 5.5 (i.e. not ESX) and inside this I am running a Linux server as a guest OS. I'm looking for a solution whereby I can monitor certain things like CPU use of the host from inside the guest. Your script says it is for ESX, is there a version what will work in my case?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Regards,
Mark
Statistics: Posted by markf — Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:29 pm
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You should have snmpd running on the VMWare console server, and also the vmware-snmpd helper agent (this is the one that deals with the 6876 enterprise). Try restarting snmpd and vmware-snmpd (in that order).
Make sure you are querying the VMWare console and not the guest OS!
Make sure you can SNMPwalk the agent. IE, check you have the right community string and that you can get a response from the SNMP daemon.
Statistics: Posted by stevesh — Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:50 am
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Remember it is case sensitive. There is an option to check_esx that returns the list of all known vhosts, but I cant remember it off the top of my head (I'm not in the office at the moment). I think you do the host command without giving the vhost name argument, or something similar - Ill check when I'm next in. I suspect it is a simple case or spelling difference.
Another possibility is that you dont have SNMP properly configured on the vmware server and so check_esx is getting no vhost list at all, although I think that would give a different error message.
Statistics: Posted by stevesh — Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:07 am
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You need to enable SNMP on your ESX console before this plugin will work.
Login to the console as root and run 'snmpsetup.sh default' to get the daemons running. Then configure /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf and restart them. There is lots about this in Ch7 of the ESX manual. You may also want to change the community from the default of 'public'.
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Statistics: Posted by stevesh — Tue Nov 23, 2004 9:53 am
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