Cheshire Cat Computing

Steve

I see the folks at Groundwork have your new version of check_esx included in there community 5.2.1 version.
# check_esx Version 4.0
#
# Check the status of a virtual machine on a VMware ESX server, via SNMP
# Return status in format for either Nagios or MRTG
#
# Steve Shipway (http://www.steveshipway.org) Nov 2004, Dec 2006, Aug 2007
# Released under GNU GPL
#
# Version 2.0: Added SNMP agent extension to get memory split and ready time
# 2.1: Corrected some bugs. Use >0.01 instead of >0.
# 2.2: corrected opt_r bug, fa bug
# 2.3:
# 2.4: simpler guest names for list report
# 2.5: Thresholds for LIST given more sensible defaults
# Added -a alternate for MRTG/Nagios in MEM and CPU
# 2.6: Final tests under ESX3
# 3.0: Merge in GW additions, change -v to -V to standardise
# 4.0 Complete re-write to use esxtop outpu

They also talk about it in the bookshelf documentation, but it seems to be incomplete.
In the bookshelf documentation they talk about the following files.

Installation

1. Setup the ESX target server(s) for monitoring:

Copy the following files to the /etc/snmp directory on the ESX server to be monitored:

vmware-statgen-gw

vmware_statsgen.conf

vmware-stats-gw

defesxtop.cfg

What do you know about the required files listed above? I can not seem to find them in the community 5.2.1 version.

Jerry Sipes

Basically, they've had the script since a year ago and have been working on it to make it fully compatible with the various versions of ESX. I've been out of the game for a year since there's too much 'real' work, plus a new member to my family, and I've just not been able to devote time to it. GW, on the other hand, have more people who are also paid to do this and have developed a larger and better version which they've dubbed v4.0. The data collection is radically different, so much that I'm almost surprised they kept my name on it (although props to them for giving recognition etc, unlike some other companies who shall remain nameless which stripped my name out entirely from my GPL'd software)

So in short, I don't really know much about the current v4 as this is a GW development. As the comments say, theyve completely rewritten the vmware-stats SNMP plugin.

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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