Monitoring ESXi 5 Hardware

Question

Hi,

I would like to monitor my ESXi 5 Hardware. Therefore I need to get the information via WBEM as SNMP is not supported anymore.

How can that be done with vFoglight (6.6)?

I did a few searches on google and looked through the discussions on this community and was not able to find anything helpful.

Thanks,

Daniel

DELL-Thomas B · Accepted Answer

I've been plugging away on this lately and made some progress on IPMI/CIM data.  I'd really like to pull it from vCenter directly, but their API is turning out to be quite a pain in how they gather from each vendor.  In the end I will most likely write a custom agent that gets what I need directly from each host on a periodic basis from each host directly.  In the end I think this will work out better since I can then use it for any host, running VMware or not.

daniel.hecht · Answer

Bump. Sorry for that, but does really noone have some information about that?

pgadgil · Answer

Hello dhecht, We do not monitor individual ESX/ESXi hosts directly however vFoglight 6.6 does support vCenter 5. Regards Prasad Gadgil

daniel.hecht · Answer

Thats what we do either. But I found no information on how to get the information on the hardwarestatus of the ESXi 5 server.

pgadgil · Answer

Could you please elaborate on what specifically are you looking for in hardware status. Regards Prasad Gadgil

daniel.hecht · Answer

In the vSphere Client under Hardwarestatus of an ESX(i) Server you can get information of all available sensors on that specific ESX(i) Host.

This is the information I would like to have in a dashboard, most important would be the power drawn by this system.

At the moment I you PRTG for that (uses WBEM to get this information) but it is an eval and I like to have this information in one system: vfoglight.

pgadgil · Answer

That information is currently not monitored. My suggestion would be to created a Support case so that Product Enhancement request can be logged. Regards Prasad Gadgil

daniel.hecht · Answer

Thank you for that information Prasad.

daniel.hecht · Answer

Is it possible to get that information from the vCenter server with vFoglight with any kind of protocol?

Vel0city · Answer

Would just the alarms from vCenter on the HW status be sufficient or would you want the actual CIM data?  You can get the CIM data, but it's not easily available via PowerCLI + Custom agent, so it's really more VMware CIM SDK programming and a custom agent.  The alarms would be much simpler to have fire based on the ones in vCenter already.

dtsmith62 · Answer

For us this would be a great advantage even if you could not get sensor data and manipulate thresholds. Yes. Leverage the alarms already in vCenter.  Then you dont even have to care about underlying hardware type and your customers can use Foglight to monitor and react to hardware alarms. Even if they have to go into vCenter later to manage the alarms.

rogerlundarrays · Answer

+1. this would be nice to see.

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