SNMP and VMFS

jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
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I have a monitoring software running which monitors all sort of server / services of 100s of server (alerts via SMS etc.)

Does anyone know how I can monitor the VMFS partition via SNMP ? I don't mean sending traps (push) but rather pull the information for each header (also ones which aren't connected to a vcenter) ?
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  • bertiebbertieb Member Posts: 1,031 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Do you NEED to use SNMP for this? It's possible to poll the hosts for similar information using the API (e.g. in my case I have a perl script running in nagios, basically). You can also do this with powershell (vSphere PowerCLI). I'd suspect these may be easier as there is quite a lot of information out there now.

    Also, theres a half decent perl script on the Nagios Exchange, 'check_esx3' I *think* that may be of use.

    HTH!
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    bertieb wrote: »
    Do you NEED to use SNMP for this?

    Yes, like I say - we run our own software doing this and we did run perl scripts on other test hosts and it was quite CPU extensive so I rather don't run any cron'ed scripts on the hosts.
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  • bertiebbertieb Member Posts: 1,031 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Gomjaba wrote: »
    Yes, like I say - we run our own software doing this and we did run perl scripts on other test hosts and it was quite CPU extensive so I rather don't run any cron'ed scripts on the hosts.

    Fair enough. I'm lucky to have a perl wizard who took the check_esx3 script (amongst others) and tidied it up considerably - it is pretty intensive and inefficient in its base state.

    I can't help with the SNMP query though, good luck in resolving that one :)
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    bertieb wrote: »
    Fair enough. I'm lucky to have a perl wizard who took the check_esx3 script (amongst others) and tidied it up considerably - it is pretty intensive and inefficient in its base state.

    I can't help with the SNMP query though, good luck in resolving that one :)

    Thanks, the biggest challenge at the moment is to make the MIB work with our software and get the right OID :)
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  • astorrsastorrs Member Posts: 3,139 ■■■■■■□□□□
    You'll have to manually create shell scripts on the ESX servers to expose those kinds of results via SNMP and then edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf to export them as unused OID's.

    I'm with bertieb though, I'd use the API, even if all you do is pull it all in and then expose it from a central server through SNMP.
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