Cheshire Cat Computing

Can you let me know which version of the plugin you are using, which version of the Perl API, and also which version the ESX server is? There may be problems with the returned values under differrent combinations. Get the latest plugin verison and Perl API if possible.

Steve

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Sorry, I'm just getting around to coming back to check for answers.

Here is the information that you asked for.


# ./check_vmware.pl --version
VI Perl Toolkit version: 4.0
Script 'check_vmware.pl' version: 1.0

Perl v5.10.0

VMware-vSphere-SDK-for-Perl-4.0.0-161974

This is the server that is giving me the strange answer
VMware, Inc. VMware ESXi 4.0.0 build-208167

This is the build on the servers that are working OK.
VMware, Inc. VMWare ESX 4.0.0 build-219382

Thanks -- unfortunately the --version flag doesn't work due to a bug in the VMware API that reports 1.0 whatever I set the version string to... the only way to get the actual script version is to example the check_vmware.pl script and read it from the line near the beginning. Do 'grep VERSION check_vmware.pl' to extract the version.

Version 0.9 of the script fixed some CPU percentage bugs; current version is 0.11 (published) and 0.12 (development).

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

That sounds like it then. I'll snag a newer version and give that a go.

my($VERSION) = "0.8";

I have now uploaded version 0.12beta into the main thread (attached to the first posting in the main thread, as well as here). This should give a better result for the CPU values.

_________________
Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

_________________
Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11