I will stick on to your 3rd suggestion
3) With a bit of work, you can get this information from the OS. If you install nsclient/NC_Net or SNMP on windows, and SNMP or NRPE on Linux, you can query the network interface counters in the guest and then use MRTG and Nagios to monitor network traffic that way. This is how we do it. You need to make sure you are calculating the rate on the MRTG/Nagios server and not on the guest, though, else youll be affected by clock skew.
I will follow the below steps
a) Install NRPE on Nagios and then the daemon on the ESX server
b) Nagios will use check_NRPE plugin to query the interface on ESX server : For eg: the check_NRPE plugin will contact the NRPE daemon on ESX server and runs the Nagios Plugin
Question: Here how do i install the plugin for networking on ESX server ?? , with out network plugin , what method have you followed in your setup , so that i can follow the same
Thanks once again for your help steveStatistics: Posted by sainath — Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:42 pm
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