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RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:37:24 GMT

Hi,

I can connect to My ESXi from Zenoss and I can obtain HOST and Guest info with the VMware Data pack like this

/opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.0.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server 10.1.1.1

But after adding the server I'm having these 3 mes. I' running zenoss-3.0.3 stock rpm over centos 5.3 and follow all instructions to install you're Pack.

zen3.logisoftech.com|zenjmx|/Status/Heartbeat||4|localhost

zenjmx

heartbeat

failure

zencommand

/Cmd/Fail|VMwareHost|3

zen3.domain.com

/Colocation

2010/12/01

08:57:54.000

/Cmd/Fail

Enter

password:

zencommand

/Cmd/Fail|VMwareGuest|3

zen3.domain.com

/Colocation

2010/12/01

08:58:29.000

/Cmd/Fail

Enter

password:

In the documentation you mention

"set the VSphereUsername and VSpherePassword and ZCommandUsername and ZCommandPasswor"

Do we have to enter the username and the password twice ?

The only place I can put a User name / password is on the configuration properties

zCommandPassword

zCommandUsername

Are there other place where we need to put the Vmware username and Password other then those 2 fields ?

From what I see it is like that I'm missing a password somewhere

More info,

After I model the device I see all my vm under Component --> Virtual Machines

I can see the VM details , RAM, OS etc

But not Graph data and always these 3 errors.

Any pointers would be very appreciated !

Could you give us an examples usages of you're script so that we can test from the CLI ?

Bye

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:50:46 GMT

more info

I Have try this with in the PACK

cd /opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor-1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareESXiMonitor/libexec

./esxi_stats.pl --server 10.1.1.1 --username user1 --password admin123$ --verbose --vmname vm1

This won't work will tell invalid password

But this will work

./esxi_stats.pl --server 10.1.1.1 --username user1 --password 'admin123$' --verbose --vmname vm1

Since I have a $ in the real password could that be the problem that graph data is not working ?

Also, I'm checking the trafic between Zenoss and esxi when I do model the device I see https trafic but after that I only see Ping going every 5 min. .....

Thanks

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:03:42 GMT

In configuration properties there are fields for zVSphereUsername and zVSpherePassword. Those fields must also contain the username and password, your $ in the password doesn't affect it, because when it calls that script it puts the password in single qoutes.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:14:36 GMT

Hi Eric,

Sory about this, I never saw those param in the configurations properties.

I just add the username there and did a push changes and and model device.

My tcpdump is still running and has I type this message I saw zenoss polled data via https, the graph should update in a few minutes .... ;-)

Update: Graph are showing , superbe !

This Pack is perfect I have try the one using resxtop but it,s using too much ressource on my zenoss box

Again a big Thanks

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:56:10 GMT

Hi, I have a similar problem as bougui.

When I modell the device I get the name, memory and OS of the VM's but no graphs for the VM's, neither for the ESX host.

I have put username in zCommandUsername & zVSphereUsername

I have put password in zCommandPassword & zVSpherePassword

I use Zenoss version 2.5.2

When i look in the ~zenoss/perf/Devices I dont find and directory for my ESX host.

If I use tcpdump I dont see any polling of the ESX host other than ping

In the event.log I have (10.0.0.1 is my ESX host)

--- snip ---

------ 2010-12-08T13:09:47 INFO zen.Device device name '10.0.0.1' for ip '10.0.0.1'

------ 2010-12-08T13:09:47 INFO zen.Device setting performance monitor to localhost ------ 2010-12-08T13:09:47 INFO zen.DeviceLoader Device 10.0.0.1 loaded!

------ 2010-12-08T13:10:38 INFO zen.Utils Executing command: /home/zenoss/bin/zenmodeler run --now --monitor localhost -F -d 10.0.0.1 --weblog

------ 2010-12-08T13:10:52 INFO zen.PerformanceConf configuration collected

------ 2010-12-08T13:34:56 ERROR RenderServer Failed to generate a graph Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/zenoss/Products/ZenRRD/RenderServer.py", line 190, in render rrdtool.graph(*gopts) error

------

--- snap ---

Any hints of I could troubleshoot this any further?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:05:29 GMT

Hey

I just fixed this problem last night, I am packaging it up right now and will have a new version within the hour.

This problem is actually with the VMwareDataSource pack, but I am also the author of that, look for changes on that page.

-Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:49:27 GMT

Installed everything without problems, set all passwords etc. It appears to report the info of both the host and VMs but does not give me any stats of the running system or produce the graphs. No errors appear in the event logs it just says:

INFO zen.PerformanceConf configuration collected

Any suggestions?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:14:25 GMT

Please reference VMwareDataSource zenpack that is used to get the performance information.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:20:17 GMT

VMwareDataSource zenpack is v 1.1.2

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:23:14 GMT

I wasn't asking what version you were using I was meaning that you should reference this page http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-10242 there may be something in the comments that could help you.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:29:06 GMT

Hi Eric,

I followed your instruction above and installed ZenPack VMware ESXi Monitor to monitor my ESXi 4 host. However, i'm not seeing any VM resources or VM guest machine under components after i model device. I only see network interfaces. I'm running CentOS 5.5 with Zenoss 3.0.3. I have installed the below ZenPack in order and restart zenoss after each installation. I didn't get any error during the installation at all. Also, i have specified the Zvspherepassword and Zcommandpassword in the configuration properties. I'm not sure what is wrong here but i'm only seeing the network interfaces. Could you point me in the right direction. Thanks for your help in advance!!

Installed packages:

1. openSSL,

2. vSphere SDK Perl,

3. Vmware DataSource 1.1.2

4. Virtual Host Monitor 2.3.6 -py2.6

5. VMware ESXi Monitor 1.2

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:36:47 GMT

Hey

It sounds to me like your device existed before you added this zenpack, because you should not be seeing an interfaces thing in components. So delete your device and re-add per my instructions and you should be up and running.

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:42:27 GMT

Hi Eric,

I have deleted the device and re-added per your instructions but i'm only seeing a network interfaces under components after i model device. I even deleted all the zenpack and re-install them, but still no luck. Do you think this might be how the snmp.xml file were configure from my ESXi host? if so, could you give me a sample the snmp.xml file? I set snmp to "true" and added the community string in the snmp.xml file. I'm not sure why is it not working. I can't think of anything. Please help. Thanks for all your help.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:33:45 GMT

Hi Eric

I also try to add a ESXi host into Zenoss (V 3.0.3; Centos 5.5)

My steps I did:

- I installed the three Zenpacks as discribed above (device class is up to date)

- sudo yum install libxml2-devel openssl-devel

- installed vSphere SDK for Perl 4.1

- then I tried to model the device

Here is my log:

2011-01-27 14:27:30,450 INFO zen.ZenDisc: Connecting to localhost:8789
2011-01-27 14:27:30,470 INFO zen.ZenDisc: Connected to ZenHub
2011-01-27 14:27:34,609 INFO zen.ZenDisc: Looking for 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:05,831 INFO zen.ZenDisc: Result: Discovered device 10.130.6.80.
2011-01-27 14:29:05,847 INFO zen.ZenDisc: No WMI plugins found for 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:05,849 INFO zen.ZenDisc: Python collection device 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:05,849 INFO zen.ZenDisc: plugins: community.cmd.VMwareESXiGuestMap, community.cmd.VMwareESXiHostMap
2011-01-27 14:29:05,849 INFO zen.PythonClient: Getting VMware ESXi guest info for device 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:07,977 INFO zen.PythonClient: Getting VMware ESXi host info for device 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:10,400 INFO zen.PythonClient: Python client finished collection for 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:10,401 WARNING zen.ZenDisc: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiGuestMap returned no results.
2011-01-27 14:29:10,402 WARNING zen.ZenDisc: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiHostMap returned no results.
2011-01-27 14:29:10,402 INFO zen.ZenDisc: No change in configuration detected
2011-01-27 14:29:10,404 INFO zen.ZenDisc: No command plugins found for 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:10,404 INFO zen.ZenDisc: SNMP monitoring off for 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:10,404 INFO zen.ZenDisc: No portscan plugins found for 10.130.6.80
2011-01-27 14:29:10,420 INFO zen.ZenDisc: Scan time: 4.59 seconds
2011-01-27 14:29:10,430 INFO zen.ZenDisc: Daemon ZenDisc shutting down

It does not shown anything after the device is added???

Do you have any idea?

Many thanx for your help

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:02:12 GMT

Hey

You must be talking about a different ZenPack because my ZenPack doesn't use SNMP it uses the VMware API which I rewuire you to install.

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:03:29 GMT

Hey bb

The plugins will not return results after you add it since you need to actually setup the usernames and passwords according to the setup instructions.

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:56:21 GMT

Hi Eric,

I'm using Zenpack according to http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-10225. This is the correct one. I used to have SNMP.xml file configured on my ESXi host but I just disabled SNMP. I have removed and re-installed ZenPack and model device. Usernames and passwords are setup correctly per setup instruction. Nothing show up under component. Below is the result of device model. Do you have any idea? Thanks for you help!!

Device Model:

2011-01-27 09:45:59,956 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Connecting to localhost:8789

2011-01-27 09:45:59,970 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Connected to ZenHub

2011-01-27 09:46:00,026 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Collecting for device 192.168.1.7

2011-01-27 09:46:00,144 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No WMI plugins found for 192.168.1.7

2011-01-27 09:46:00,149 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No Python plugins found for 192.168.1.7

2011-01-27 09:46:00,154 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No command plugins found for 192.168.1.7

2011-01-27 09:46:00,167 INFO zen.ZenModeler: SNMP collection device 192.168.1.7

2011-01-27 09:46:00,167 INFO zen.ZenModeler: plugins: zenoss.snmp.NewDeviceMap, zenoss.snmp.DeviceMap, zenoss.snmp.InterfaceMap, zenoss.snmp.RouteMap, zenoss.snmp.IpServiceMap, zenoss.snmp.HRFileSystemMap, zenoss.snmp.HRSWInstalledMap, zenoss.snmp.HRSWRunMap, zenoss.snmp.CpuMap

2011-01-27 09:46:00,248 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No portscan plugins found for 192.168.1.7

2011-01-27 09:46:08,271 INFO zen.SnmpClient: Device timed out: SNMP info for 192.168.1.7 at 192.168.1.7:161 timeout: 2.5 tries: 2 version: v1 community: g3tst@tsn0w

2011-01-27 09:46:08,272 INFO zen.SnmpClient: snmp client finished collection for 192.168.1.7

2011-01-27 09:46:08,272 WARNING zen.SnmpClient: Device 192.168.1.7 timed out: are your SNMP settings correct?

2011-01-27 09:46:08,272 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No change in configuration detected

2011-01-27 09:46:08,329 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Scan time: 8.30 seconds

2011-01-27 09:46:08,344 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Daemon ZenModeler shutting down

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:19:48 GMT

Hey

I modifed the instructions to be more clear if you didn't read them, because you must have made a mistake somewhere. I can tell this because my zenpack does not use SNMP plugins only Python plugins.

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:11:20 GMT

I'm also having problems with the monitor. Installed everything I had to: SSL, vSphere SDK and the zenpacks, but I still dont get any graphs. The thing is that it's kinda working, becouse zenoss models the device fine(i get the number of VMs and their info). Only getting graph data is failing. When i run the command manually from zenoss GUI i get this:

Preparing Command...

Executing command /usr/bin/perl /opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server 10.11.101.10 --username root --password '*******' --options 'hostperf:10.11.101.10' | tail -n1 against 10.11.101.10

DONE in 2 seconds

The problem is I dont get any output The same is when i try it from the console as root.

Tnx for the help...

P.S.: I am running the Zenoss VM image

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:34:05 GMT

Thanks for all your help. I will re-do this and will let you know.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:50:47 GMT

Hey Fusion

You are not getting performance statistics because you did not follow my instructions to a tee. I have added a Note to the VMwareDataSource page to address this issue since you are not the first to ask me. Please read http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-10242

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:39:26 GMT

I think i did follow it quite closely. Installed the dependencies, installed the zenpacks (with the updated VMWareDataSource), added a new device with lowercase name (esx1), inputed the username and password for zCommand and Vsphere. dont know what else i should do, short of uninstalling everything and doing it again.

The only problem I think it could be is becouse i had the old VMWare data source which i updated (I deleted and re-added my device after that).

Will fiddle around for a bit and see if i can solve it...

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:42:24 GMT

Hey

If you followed my direction's your device would have been added using the command string I provided and it would have been named it's fqdn automatically by this. I have since updated both documents to inform people what fqdn stands for, I'm sorry I just assumed that any network admin would know this term.

-Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:29:04 GMT

I got this working,

well sort of, it shows the graphs for the virtual machines. which is really awsome!!

It does not show anything for the Host.

Do I need to enable ssh on the esxi server?

thanks

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:14:50 GMT

Heh, just noticed i have the same problem as acraiger. I have graphs for VMs but not for host. And i did use the fqdn when i added my device.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:19:03 GMT

Bah I'm so stupid It was the fqdn. Changed the device name to the fqdn, but it still used the old one. Now I removed and re-added the device and it's working...

Tnx for the help...

Cya

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:04:06 GMT

Yep, fqdn was the problem.

Once I changed the device name to the fqdn, I now get graph's for the Host.

I also had to remove and re-add the host before it started working.

Great Zenpack.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:18:22 GMT

I'm having some sort of perl problem, so I can't for the life of me get this to work.

cd /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor-1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareESXiMonitor/libexec

./esxi_stats.pl --server esxi_server_name --verbose --vmname virtual_machine_name

Enter username: root

Enter password:

Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method XML::LibXML::Document::documentElement() is deprecated at /usr/share/perl/5.10/VMware/VICommon.pm line 548, <STDIN> line 2.

Undefined subroutine &XML::LibXML::Document::documentElement called at /usr/share/perl/5.10/VMware/VICommon.pm line 548

I've tried removing and reinstalling the vSphere CLI, the dependency ZenPacks and this ZenPack, to no avail. Still the same error message.

Any thoughts?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:02:26 GMT

Nevermind, seems there was a problem with libxml-libxml-perl.

I removed it and reinstalled it with apt. Now the ZenPack is working fine.

Thanks.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:44:00 GMT

Hmm, I get performance information in the graphs for the hosts, but not for the VMs.

I see all the VMs in Components -> Virtual Mahcines, but their graphs are empty.

I think I've followed the instructions to the letter, but perhaps I missed something.

This is what I have installed:

VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-4.1.0-254719.i386.tar.gz

ZenPacks.zenoss.ZenossVirtualHostMonitor-2.3.6-py2.6.egg

ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg

ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor-1.2.egg

I added the hosts using fqdn.

What could be wrong here? Please advice.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:01:42 GMT

Hi,

i have this zenpack working OK and what i can add here is that only when i used a root user for both zCommand and zVSphere, it started working 100%. Before that i was using a custom test user and didn't get it to work okay.

From my experience with this subject I guess this:

1. zCommand user credentials are used to execute a command on an ESXi host in general on an OS level

2. zVSphere user credentials are used add more security while executing a vCLI command

I think my ESX admin guy somehow registered an ESX root user to be a vSphere user as well. This way i'm using root user (which by default is a most powerful user on a ESX host) for both OS-level permissions as well as vCLI permissions.

Of course, using a root user is not acceptable for production, but this is the only way i managed to test the zenpack without bothering to get the permissions right as i'm not an ESX admin and have no time to learn that subject as well.

So try with the root user and isolate the root cause of your problem. If using the root user gives you all graphs then you know you have problems with permissions.

HTH

marko

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:32:57 GMT

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I have always used the root user and password on the zCommandUsername, zCommandPassword, zVSphereUsername and zVSpherePassword.

The VM graphs are still empty though.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:49:16 GMT

Hey

Sorry I haven't had time to reply, I have been very busy with work and school. This is the script that collects the performance data on the hosts.

$ZENHOME/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server serverip --username username --password '*******' --options 'guestperf:guestname'

You can run that and see if you get and data back, I run it with a '| tail -n1' at the end because ubuntu uses an older version of libxml which likes to throw warnings, but from user feedback it still works fine.

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:00:46 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

This is the output of the command. As you can see, there's only some SSL messages.

zenoss@xxxx:~$ /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server servername --username root --options 'guestperf:vmname'
Enter password:
SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A
SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A
SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A
SSL_connect:before/connect initialization
SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server hello A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server certificate A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read server done A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write client key exchange A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write change cipher spec A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 write finished A
SSL_connect:SSLv3 flush data
SSL_connect:SSLv3 read finished A

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:14:32 GMT

okay, i now have the third zenoss installation using your zenpack, and now i got even more confused:

In your instructions above you say:

"To add the ESX/ESXi host to be monitored, run the following command in a terminal as the zenoss user "zendisc run --deviceclass=/Server/Virtual\ Machine\ Host/ESXi and --device=ipaddress"."

Okay, do we have to run this command (in zenoss cli as a zenoss user) using

--device=<ipaddress>

--device=<fqdn> ????

Reading this thread and VMware dataSource thread regarding this topic now inserts some confusion.

Blindly following your instructions i added three ESXi hosts (esxi01, esxi02 and esxi03). All of them are pingable from zenoss, all of them are in DNS and all of them have lowercase fqdns.

I performed discovery via command:

zendisc run --deviceclass=/Server/Virtual\ Machine\ Host/ESXi --device=ipaddress

replacing ipaddress with IP addresses of target esxi hosts, respectively.

All 3 esxi hosts were discovered by Zenoss and their Name was automatically replaced by their fqdn in /Devices (e.g. esxi01.my.company.com). Modelling went fine (after supplying zCommand and zVSphere user and password and re-modelling) and all esxi host and guest (VMs) static data is collected okay.

However, ESXi01 has all data and perf graphs ok, while esxi02 and 03 are missing ONLY the HOSTPERF data/graphs.

Also, manually running the esxi_performance.pl (in CLI as zenoss user) for hostperf for esxi01 produces desired output, while the same (adequate) command for hostperf for esxi02 and esxi03 simply quits without any output or errors....

All three devices are listed in .../zenoss/perf/Devices/ as fqdns.

I don't see any errors anywere, zencommand daemon log is showing timeouts on these commands and that's it.

What do you think causes this?

Let me point out that all 3 esxi hosts are of the same model/version, same passwords, same procedure to discover and modell etc. Guest data and perf graphs (VMs) are there for all 3 esx machines, but only one esxi has HOSTPERF graphs....

marko

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:14:35 GMT

Ok, i was able to get to the root cause and solve this.

First of all, it doesn't make any difference if you use --device=<ip address> or --device=<fqdn> in discovery command, the effect in zenoss after discovery is the same IF the following prerequisite is met correctly: lowercase fqdn in DNS.

NOTE: actually i don't know does it have anything to do with DNS as i don't fully understand the communication flows used in this zenpack. Eric, please add your comment to this to clarify if i'm mistaken about DNS

The cause of this problem was that the actual ESX hostname for esx02 and esx03 was NOT set up according to requirements:

DNS and ZENOSS:

esx01.my.company.com

esx02.my.company.com

esx03.my.company.com

ESX HOSTNAME (as seen in vCenter console):

esx01.my.company.com - all OK

Esx02.my.company.com - no hostperf data

Esx03.my.company.com - no hostperf data

So this capital letter made a difference, once this was corrected to conform with requirements (changed the esx hostname using vcenter to lowercase "e"), hostperf data was available...

Hope this helps

marko

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:01:04 GMT

Ok, that’s good.

Yes that won't make a difference. I had just made an assumption that peoples ESXi servers names were setup when they used DNS on there machines. So in my environments all my DNS records are lowercase so my machines get names with lower case names.

To actually get the data off the server is queries a type of database on the server. The database on the server is also case senstive and for stats related to the machine it stores it under it's name. So basically you look my IP you get no information but client info works fine.

I guess if I had given this explanation earlier you would have had it functioning, I just guess my assumptions were wrong since I didn't know you could actually change the name of the ESXi/ESX host itself.

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:40:55 GMT

I am having problems with the guests graphs coming up. I am getting a site error message. I think the problem I am having is relating to this.

/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.1.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server 1.2.3.45 --username root --password 'passwd' --options ''guest"

The above is referenced in http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-10242 and it works for me, but the path I have to go to is different from this.

/usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec

The path I go to is:

/opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl

The above path works fine in the command line, but I think this is the reason that the graphs are broken?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:45:00 GMT

Hey

The path is autogenerated to even though I gave that path in a previous

comment that applied to that person. I can't really tell from the supplied

information as to what your problem may be.

-Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:30:56 GMT

I have tested and this zenpack is compatable with ESXi 4.1

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:01 GMT

...

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:00:25 GMT

hi eric

1) does this zenpack provide alerts if the VM is down? (haven't seen any in my event history so far)

2) if i add a threshod in a VirtualMachine performance template for e.g. CPU utilization to 90%, then i get a /Perf/CPU event saying that on host "esx-blabla" CPU went over 90%, but event Component filed is not populated with the name of the actual VM that had a CPU util breach. Is there a way to have a VM populated in event component?

regards

Marko

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:06:38 GMT

Hey Marko

As the current version there is no alerts when a VM is down. Right now VM status is only updated at model time, a restriction of the ZenossVirtualHostMonitor zenpack since it uses booleans for status which can't be updated in a template data source. To overcome this I have been working on removing this dependencie, currently I have emulated similar functionality without and will soon be making changes to address that issue.

On your second issue yes I believe that should be possible but I need to test it out first.

Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:42:49 GMT

eric,

thanks for the answers and update on this...

regards

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:28:48 GMT

I installed a 4.1.0 vmware ESXI server and login via my active directory

I hadded a user XXX\_zenoss with "read only" rights in the VM

However when i run the command below i get this error message .... however i can login via the vsphere client with that same account ....

/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server 1.2.3.4 --username 'XXX\_zenoss' --password 'XXXXXXX' --options guest

Error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:43:43 GMT

You may want to try a local account on the ESXi box for monitoring purposes. The programmer of the zenpack would have to confirm if Active Directory credentials are supported. If so, I would be interested in that. If not, the zenpack is worth the 2 minutes to setup an account on each ESXi box.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:10:02 GMT

Hi,

first of all your ZenPack works like a charm.I had some problems with the installation but they were RTFM related.

But I still have one problem: The performance graphs for the virtual machines work, the host graphs stay empty.

Any ideas?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:50:52 GMT

The host perfs were showing up the day we installed. That night we upgraded from esxi vsphere 4.0 to 4.1 and now nothing works other than the guest tab.

When i execute the esxi_performance.pl command on the command line against the 4.0 machine, i get the following:

/usr/bin/perl /data/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server 10.10.10.26 --username root --password 'xxxxxxx' --options 'hostperf:hq15esxi01.blah.com' | tail -n1
hostperf|sysUpTime=272745300 memSwapused=0 memGranted=86005208 memActive=11183900 diskUsage=366 cpuUsagemhz=7569 cpuUsage=1182 cpuReservedcapacity=0

Here are the results on the 4.1 system:

<nuttin>

I am using VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-4.1.0-254719 on centos 5-6. Collecting graph data from our 4.0 boxes continues to work but nothing coming back from the 4.1 systmes. I verified that i am able to run resxtop from the command line successfully against both the 4.0 and 4.1 systems.

Has anyone gotten this monitor ot successfully work with VSphere 4.1? If so, were there any changes required to make it work?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:51:30 GMT

We have set up SNMP and have zenoss collecting stats on all of our virtual machines independant of this zenpack. Is there any reprocussions of having both native OS native SNMP collections as well as the vmware guest monitoring through this? Obviously, having a direct tie to the OS SNMP stack can allow for additional monitoring targets that may not be supported by the VMware API, but I don't want to overload servers by collecting stats on them twice,have the addition of the host machine blocked because the guest machine's IP is already in zenoss, etc.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:25:59 GMT

I am trying to use a domain login with this zenpack. In the properties I put in DOMAIN\username but everytime it hits the esxi server it removes the \. Any ideas? I tried username@domain.com but that also fails.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:34:58 GMT

Once I put the DOMAIN\username in quotes like so "DOMAIN\username" in the properties, everything started working! Thanks.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

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RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:32:59 GMT

Alright, so username and password working perfectly but still no data.

If I run:

./esxi_performance.pl --server vmware.domain.local --username "user" --password 'password' --options 'guestperf:server.domain.local'

guestperf|memUsage=299 memOverhead=62036 memConsumed=4193780 diskUsage=31 cpuUsageMin=217 cpuUsageMax=217 cpuUsageAvg=217 cpuUsage=103

It looks like the DataSource is working!

./esxi_stats.pl --server vmware.domain.local --verbose --vmname server.domain.local

STATUS OK|CPUSpeed=4787000000 CPUUsage=98000000 MemorySize=4294967296 ActiveMemory=127926272 CachedMemory=4357881856

It appears the ESXI Monitor is working as well.

BUT.. no Components are showing up under the device. The only think showing up is the ESXi host graph statistics.

I have tried deleting the device, uninstalling ALL zenpacks related to vmware. Installed the vsphere SDK again, re-installed all vmware zenpacks according to documentation. Add the the username and password into the config properties and add the device again. Everything appears to be working but where are my components?

I verified the template is bound to /server/virtual machine host/esxi and the two modeler plugins are there but everytime I model I get:

2011-09-17 18:31:00,279 WARNING zen.ZenModeler: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiGuestMap returned no results.

2011-09-17 18:31:00,279 WARNING zen.ZenModeler: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiHostMap returned no results.

Running Zenoss 3.2 Core on CentOS 5.6 x64.

Help???

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RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:50:50 GMT

Hi Eric.

I spend lot of time to get result,

re-installed ZenPacks, resolved SSH certificate, added devices with fqdn, changed my DNS etc. without satisfactory effect.

Now I

have'nt graphs (VM and host), every counter have 'nan' value, but from console I get results:

zenoss@pse-zenoss:/usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec> ./esxi_performance.pl --server pse-mob-v1.company.local --username root --password P@ssw0rd --options 'hostperf:pse-mob-v1.company.local'
Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20708, but runtime libxml2 is older 20702
hostperf|sysUpTime=53325500 memSwapused=479464 memGranted=5344276 memActive=862296 diskUsage=542 cpuUsagemhz=338 cpuUsage=352 cpuReservedcapacity=3800

zenoss@pse-zenoss:/usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec> ./esxi_performance.pl --server pse-mob-v1.company.local --username root --password P@ssw0rd --options 'guestperf:PSE-MOBSQL'
Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20708, but runtime libxml2 is older 20702
guestperf|memUsage=1199 memOverhead=65832 memConsumed=2688392 diskUsage=31 cpuUsageMin=124 cpuUsageMax=124 cpuUsageAvg=124 cpuUsage=119

zenoss@pse-zenoss:/usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor-1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareESXiMonitor/libexec> ./esxi_stats.pl --server pse-mob-v1.company.local --username root --password P@ssw0rd --vmname PSE-MOBSQL
Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20708, but runtime libxml2 is older 20702
STATUS OK|CPUSpeed=9600000000 CPUUsage=114000000 MemorySize=3212836864 ActiveMemory=320864256 CachedMemory=2814377984

For me, scripts working fine for host and VM (perfomance = DataSource), and for stats (ESXi Monitor), but I still have problem with graphs.

Any suggestions.

I found event about command timed out.

Command timed out on device pse-mob-v0.company.local: "/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server 172.20.1.240 --username root --password 'P@ssw0rd' --options 'hostperf:pse-mob-v0.company.local' | tail -n1"

Server have IP address not fqdn. I try it from console and have results:

zenoss@pse-zenoss:/usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec> ./esxi_performance.pl --server 172.20.1.240 --username root --password P@ssw0rd --options 'hostperf:pse-mob-v1.company.local'
Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20708, but runtime libxml2 is older 20702
hostperf|sysUpTime=53325500 memSwapused=479464 memGranted=5344276 memActive=862296 diskUsage=542 cpuUsagemhz=338 cpuUsage=352 cpuReservedcapacity=3800

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:45:40 GMT

The machine name in zenoss must be the same capitalization in ESXi. Also look in the ESXi events for if the user for the machine is logging in. Finally, ensure you have username and password in the zcommandUsername, zCommandPassword, zVSphereUsername, zVSpherePassword. Also try the python CLI from the zenoss machine. You should at least be able to connect.

Eg. ESXi.local.com

NOT

esxi.local.com

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:09:57 GMT

The PS show the same commands with the same capitalization one from event description, secound from console CLI. Of course I used CLI on zenoss machine. From console i receive data, but graphs still empty.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:59:10 GMT

Amazing, I do nothing, today all graphs show data.

One note: instruction is too simple. Exist many dependenciens around, in system for exapmle certificates etc. which have'nt information in this document.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:59:28 GMT

When i go to the Configuration properties I get a line at the top that says "Invalid property zVSpherePasswordInvalid property zVSphereUsername" and there are no fields for me to fill in for those two items. I'm running 3.1

UPDDATE: user error. restart the damn zope service

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:03:01 GMT

That error usually means you missed a step in the install process. Did you install the dependencies and do a 'zopectl restart'

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:29:40 GMT

Unable to pull any host graphs unless I use the root account for zvsphere. Doesn't seem as though a Read Only account has the appropriate permissions. I'm running 4.1 and 5.0

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:14:29 GMT

I should correct this. I was able to get it working with a vsphere account but it is an administrator rather than read only. i'm going to look at creating a custom role for it if I can find all the required permissions

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:40:36 GMT

Works with Read Only but it has to be a user defined on the ESXi host and not through vCenter

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:59:34 GMT

Hi Eric,

Could we have the datastore monitoring for each ESX server?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:05:58 GMT

Hi Eric,

I've got the host monitoring working without problems however I'm unsure if I should expect anything more. I'm under the impression there would be 'components' which were the virtual machine guests running on the ESXi host. Is that incorrect?

Or am I supposed to put the Virtual Machine guests in another device class?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:41:07 GMT

When I model my ESX 4.0 U2 Host, I get this:

2011-10-25 16:38:18,936 WARNING zen.ZenModeler: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiGuestMap returned no results.

2011-10-25 16:38:18,936 WARNING zen.ZenModeler: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiHostMap returned no results.

From the command line, I run this:

/usr/bin/perl /opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server 10.x.x.x --username root --password '*****' --options 'hostperf:gbha-vsssc01p3.corp.u4agr.com' | tail -n1

And I get this error:

Can't locate VMware/VIRuntime.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl line 9.

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl line 9.

Any ideas?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:35:41 GMT

the vmware api you refer to is that the same as the perl sdk or something different? I keep getting these warnings trying to setup my 2 vmware host machines: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiHostMap returned no results.

I have followed the instructions to a t . I'm also getting unable to connect to the sdk/webservice. any help is appreciated

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:40:21 GMT

I hope this isn't a stupid question but can one use this Zenpack to monitor multiple ESXi hosts from a central VirtualCenter server that manages the entire VMware infrastructure? I am able to pull host and VM statistics from the Vcenter server but not from the individual ESXi hosts (due to lockdown mode). I don't see where one would specify the VirtualCenter name other than to hack the perl script.

Chock

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:05:21 GMT

Not a stupid question but this ZenPack won't do that. Zenoss Enterprise however does have a ZenPack for that if you want to pony up the $$.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:54:44 GMT

It seems to me that it wouldn't take a lot of work to modify either this zenpack, the

VMwareDataSource one, or both to get Vcenter functionality working. We'll see if we can figure it out, as time permits.

Chock

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:15:07 GMT

Hey cgriebel,

Grab the source from github feel free to do what ever you like with. I haven't worked on this project in over a year and don't see myself having time for it in the near future. I currently do not use zenoss. But if any of you are willing to work on it I would suggest using psphere which is a vmware sdk for python I have been watching its progress for about a year now. It currently looks like it is at the point to be able to replace my perl dependencies. If you have any questions about the code I can try to answer then just communicate with pm here or message on my github account which is ericenns.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:38:46 GMT

Actually I had starting looking at psphere a few months ago when I started looking at your Zenpacks. It's actually pretty mature and I'd much rather work in python than perl.

I'll pull your stuff from github soon and start hacking on my free time (if there is any....).

For now I'll stick to my kludgy VMware datastore utilization alerting mechanism that has Vcenter running zensendevent to generate alerts in Zenoss. Works OK but isn't totally reliable.

In any case, thanks for your fine work on these Zenpacks.

Chock

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:27:44 GMT

Did anyone figure out the issue with: "WARNING zen.ZenModeler: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiGuestMap returned no results."

I've been careful to follow the instructions, I know the VMware perl SDK works, issued a restart of zenoss and zopectl after installing each dependancy. Plugged in appropriate user and passwords per instructions.

By the way this is for vSphere ESXi version 5. Is that release supported?

Thanks

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:42:10 GMT

Yeah I'm getting the same error and I've posted quite a few times on here with no reply from the guy who wrote it. I'm pretty sure it's a bug and it won't be fixed. I am also on ESXi 5.0.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:47:35 GMT

Hey,

I'm the original auther I know someone posting on this or the datasource thread said they were going to work on it. I no longer have an install, but I tested up to version 4.1 of esxi. You may find help from the other thread but I cannot be of assistance at this time. One thing to note though is that there is a user base who have it working, there are devs on the irc channel that may be able to help you.

-Eric

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:05:55 GMT

That sounds right. I had a customer using ESXi 4.1 and it was working for him. Tried setting it up for someone else using 4.1 with Update 1, could not get it to work. So it looks like its been broken since 4.1 U1.

Had anyone gotten this to work with 4.1 Update 1 or after?

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:35:29 GMT

mvlavic asked back on 4th May 2011 whether it was possible to set thresholds for guests and then have the name of the VM reported in the component field of an event. We have exactly the same requirement. Did anyone ever manage to solve this one?

Great ZenPacks. For info, we have it running on Ubuntu 8.0.4 which seems to be not strictly supported by the vSphere SDK but it works fine for us.

Cheers,

Jane

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:05:21 GMT

I recently got this up and running on Debian 6.0.4 using vSphere-CLI 5 and monitoring ESXi 4.1 build 582267. One big gotcha I came across is that LWP seems to be doing SSL validation and not liking what it sees with the default self-signed certs.

The workaround I used was to edit the check scripts at /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/ and /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor-1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareESXiMonitor/libexec/

by adding this line near the top:

$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0;

So for example, the header for esxi_performance.pl check looks like this now:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# License: GPL

# Author: Eric Enns

$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0;

use strict;

use warnings;

use VMware::VIRuntime;

Also as stated before from the author- use FQDN! The hostname that the machine has is what the check needs to see. So make sure the DNS records match what the host machine has under Configuration/DNS and Routing in the vSphere client.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:14:59 GMT

I found some mistakes in my settings and configuration. I got them fixed. When i modeled the device the following shows up. I tried different user info for both zcommand, and zvsphere, made no difference.

2012-04-04 09:42:30,493 WARNING zen.ZenModeler: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiGuestMap returned no results.

2012-04-04 09:42:30,494 WARNING zen.ZenModeler: The plugin community.cmd.VMwareESXiHostMap returned no results.

When i run the following command i get good result. What could be wrong??

/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareDataSource-1.1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareDataSource/libexec/esxi_performance.pl --server <ipaddress> --username username --password 'password' --options 'hostperf:VM.company.com'

hostperf|sysUpTime=3372585100 memSwapused=629292 memGranted=25788936 memActive=1432112 diskUsage=390 cpuUsagemhz=1350 cpuUsage=1692 cpuReservedcapacity=0

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:59:33 GMT

I'm using Zenoss 3.2.1 On Centos 5.8 with vCenter and ESXi 5.0. This ZenPack and its dependencies comes the closest to working properly out of all the ones that are presently out there. After following the instructions by the author and also adding the bit of perl that Donovan C mentioned about the SSL-related environment variable, I believe the ZenPack works as expected except as discused below. In my case, I had to connect with my vSphere client to each ESXi host and add a truly local user. In other words, it appears the ZenPack never actually authenticates or talks to vCenter despite what everyone including the author and the zProperties seem to imply. I supplied the local ESXi user account for both the zUsername/zPassword as well as the zVSphereUsername/zVSpherePassword. The user I created was a member of the Users group with Read-only access.

The ZenPack didn't seem to work quite right when either I or Zenoss itself tries to run esxi_performance.pl with --options 'guestperf:anyvmname' it just returns no output. rather unhelpful. Others on this page and on the comments for the DataSource zenpack have reported the same issue. And yes, i'm specifying the VM name exactly as it apepars in the vSphere client. After spending a while doing some perl debugging, I found that one of the subroutines in that perl file was crashing on getting the value of the guest VM's average disk usage. I'm not sure what that is and didn't spend any time digging further. Although a hack and not elegant, around line 66 of that file, i merely changed the definition of the variable to this:

my $diskUsage = ""; #vm_info($vm_view, 'disk', 'usage', 'average');

so that it will always return an empty string which will cause me to never have that metric until the problem is solved. But in the meantime, I get all the other guest metrics.

Finally, the only listing under "Components" that i see is "Virtual Machines". I'm not sure if i'm supposed to see anything else.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:16:16 GMT

Anyone tried this on ESXi 5? I have followed all the instructions, but I get nothing at all in Zenoss. It just has the barebones info for a device that has no SNMP. What is the best way to test? I'm using CentOS 6.2 64 bit.

--Never mind. It looks like the VMware SDK 5 hadn't really installed properly. I thought the output was telling me I just needed to install a particular package manually. I didn't realize it was implying the entire install had failed. These steps got me past it:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Configuration/Configuration-Wizards/VMware-ESX--2F-vSphere--2F-vCenter-Monitoring-Wizard/details

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:51:32 GMT

After running the zendisc command, I still get messages about SNMP and warning about SNMP settings. I have re-installed the required ZenPacks multiple times.

Can someone post the output of a successful zendisc command?

I am using Zenoss 4.2.0.

Thanks!

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:01:05 GMT

you are brave to try and use this zenpack on 4.x. I wouldn't have high hopes that it will work as expected. Maybe someone in #zenoss on freenode could point you in the right direction.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:49:48 GMT

I am using 3.2.1 now. Same problem. Unfortunately, I think the instruction notes for installing these packages need a lot of work.

3.2.1 zenPacks come with a ZenossVirtualHostMonitor pack (2.3.6). Not sure if I should remove this and install the one referenced here or not.

I appreciate any help on getting this to work.

Thanks!

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:14:51 GMT

Hello,

Plangin installed according to instructions. When testing error.

Warning: program compiled against libxml 208 using older 207

Warning: XML::LibXML compiled against libxml2 20800, but runtime libxml2 is older 20702

Server version unavailable at 'https://10.4.2.3:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/share/perl/5.14/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545.

DONE in 0 seconds

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:43:04 GMT

Is this zenpack (ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor-1.2) compatible with zenoss 4.2?

Yes it does after a little tweaking .

- Make sure there are no $ in zVSpherePassword.

- Add: export PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 in /home/zenoss/.bash_profile

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:53:01 GMT

Too bad that no one is maintaining this wonderful Zenpack any more. I can confirm that it generally works with Zenoss 4.2, VMware CLI SDK 5.1 and ESXi 4.1 and 5.0 hosts. Unfortunately on some hosts zenmodeler is unable to discover any guests, even though all general graphs, such as CPU and Disk Usage show up correctly.

On these failing devices cmd/VMwareESXiGuestMap and cmd/VMwareESXiHostMap don't deliver any results when calling libexec/esxi_guestinfo.pl and libexec/esxi_hostinfo.pl respectively but I have no idea what goes wrong. Would be great if someone with some perl and esxi knowledge could have a look at this.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:29:11 GMT

For Zenoss4.2 for some reason guest graphs do not display on internet explorer, but fine on firefox!!!!

In our case guest data works well on all ESX versions. host graphs all work well too, but we do not get CPU and Filesystem data, on some not even interface data.

I found that if you try to use ESXiTOP zenpack in conjunction then offline guests are not reported. I have no idea why.

I do hope this pack is maintained or a new one written.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:59:09 GMT

Hi,

I have just installed this zenpack on Zenoss 4.2. vSphere Perl SDK, and all other prerequisites installed OK as did ESXi-Monitor itself.

When adding the machine from the command line everything seems OK but when I go to add the zProperty usernames and passwords I only have SNMP properties and none of the zVSphereUsername, zVSpherePassword, zCommandUsername and zCommandPassword are present, do these have to be added manually of has something gone amiss?

TIA

Tim

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:48:30 GMT

Tim, as far as I'm aware, these should be there and came up for me. However, I still haven't got things working correctly myelf, I did however have zVSphereUsername, zVSpherePassword, zCommandUsername and zCommandPassword present in my configuration properties.

RE: VMWare ESXi Monitor

community@zenoss.org — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:51:09 GMT

Hello everyone

I was having a problem with this ZenPacks, reporting the plugin returned no results.

I tried launching the command from the command line of my zenoss box as zenoss user like this (1)

[zenoss@zenoss-dev-01 cmd]$ /usr/bin/perl /opt/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.community.VMwareESXiMonitor-1.2.egg/ZenPacks/community/VMwareESXiMonitor/libexec/esxi_guestinfo.pl --server cygnus-3.domain.local --username root --password 'password'

The error was

Server version unavailable at 'https://cygnus-3.domain.local:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 545.

I found the solution to

export PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0

I still don't get anything modeled for this device

(already installed vSphere Perl SDK, double checked zVSphere and zCommand username and password)

My configuration is 3 HP Proliant DL 580 G5 with ESXi 5.1.0.799733 in a single VMWare Cluster

Any suggestion?