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neildeadman
Asked: 2017-03-28 08:19:52 +0800 CST

VMware vCenter and ESXi monitoring with Xymon

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We currently have a Windows vCenter for which I have written a few scripts for various monitoring with Xymon.

We are moving to a vCenter Appliance and I need to port these scripts (or write equivalent new scripts) to work on the vCenter and the ESXi hosts.

Can I get the Xymon client installed on an ESXi host (I suspect I need to add that as a plan after each upgrade too) or is there an alternative way?

I understand there are better monitoring solutions out there than Xymon, but we use this and migrating isn't an option right now.

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1 Answers

  1. There are plenty of options to get data out of vcenter for xymon.

    You can not install xymon-clinet on esx, and must use scripts to get data via API / PowerCLI

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/xymonesxi/ Xymon Monitor for Vmware ESXi

    http://www.squidworks.net/2012/11/xymon-esx-hardware-health-monitor/

    xymon scripts and implementation stuff

    Creators of pyVmomi :

    See github

    “pyVmomi is the Python SDK for the VMware vSphere API that allows you to manage ESX, ESXi, and vCenter.”

    Creator of python-vmstats :

    also github /python-vmstats

    “Python script using pyVmomi to get VM statistics”

    I hope this helps.

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