ZenPacks : VMware Infrastructure ESX Server : Comments

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:42:08 GMT

Zenpack fails to install. The error is: : 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'clone'

Ideas?

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:11:29 GMT

Could you post a full log of the error? Are you trying to install this ZenPack on Zenoss 2.5.2? That's one way to get a 'NoneType' error.

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:47:40 GMT

Hi Matt,

Purely my fault here. I failed to install the prereq ZenossVirtualHostMonitor first. After that was install everything completed.

Thank you, works great!

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:48:00 GMT

Thank you! This looks awesome. Unfortunately, it isn't quite working for me. I'm not getting any info at all after modeling it. I have followed all the steps documented. The partial output of the final test command is below. The output for modeling a device is below as well. The Components tab isn't on the left at all. Guests is there twice, but nothing is in either. My other issue is I can't figure out how to enable SNMP for this subgroup. I know that should be simple enough, but everywhere I can find has it enabled. I get 'SNMP monitoring off' whenever I try to model it, but I can't see anywhere that it has been turned off. I'm sure it is right there in front of me, but I can't find it. Any ideas?

Model Output:

2010-10-27 16:41:43,319 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Connecting to localhost:8789

2010-10-27 16:41:43,325 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Connected to ZenHub

2010-10-27 16:41:43,464 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Collecting for device NSHPVMW1.unix

2010-10-27 16:41:43,469 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No WMI plugins found for NSHPVMW1.unix

2010-10-27 16:41:43,469 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No Python plugins found for NSHPVMW1.unix

2010-10-27 16:41:43,469 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No command plugins found for NSHPVMW1.unix

2010-10-27 16:41:43,470 INFO zen.ZenModeler: SNMP monitoring off for NSHPVMW1.unix

2010-10-27 16:41:43,470 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No portscan plugins found for NSHPVMW1.unix

2010-10-27 16:41:43,470 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Scan time: 0.01 seconds

2010-10-27 16:41:43,475 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Daemon ZenModeler shutting down

[zenoss@nshplmon1 libexec]$ $ZENHOME/ZenPacks/Ze*EsxTop*/Z*/z*/E*/libexec/check_esxtop --server=NSHPVMW1.unix --user=root --password=******* --showvms
minfree
vmvisor
fastslab
asyncTokenSlab
asyncTokenFrameSlab
netPageSlab
ScsiCmd
ScsiDeviceCommandFrame
ScsiMidlayerFrameSlab
ScsiFragmentFrameSlab
ScsiSplitInfoSlab

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:53:53 GMT

Make sure you've got your hosts located in the correct device group. Should be in /Virtual Machine Host/EsxTop . Once you move it into there make sure you have your zCommandUser and zCommandPass set correctly. Model after that.

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:04:59 GMT

Update. I didn't read the all the directions I guess

My ZenossVirtualHostMonitor ZenPack was not up to date. I updated it, but I still have issues I think. Under components, virtual machines, it seems to be listing a ton of ESXi processes as well as the machines. I guess the output below may show the same thing. Should I only be seeing the VMs? Thanks again!

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:47:15 GMT

I'll start a post in the forum. Probably better than trying to put all the details here. Thanks for the tips.

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:10:40 GMT

Looks like others are seeing the same issue I am.

http://community.zenoss.org/message/54151#54151

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:42:14 GMT

I'm also seeing "SNMP monitoring off for...." when I remodel device. I verified that zSnmpMonitorIgnore is "False" for device and class and that I have a valid community string. (SNMP works fine on all other servers.) Verified SNMP config. by doing test snmpwalk via web interface. Also have valid zCommandUsername and zCommandPassword configured. I already had latest VirtualHostMonitor zenpack installed.

Just deleted ESX host, esxtop, xen zenpack, virtualhostmonitor zenpack and reinstalled all, following instructions. Same result. No SNMP monitoring.

Ideas?

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:49:17 GMT

I just needed to go to Modeler plugins and drag the correct fields over.

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:22:28 GMT

That was it. I should have realized that with no snmp plugins enabled,

SNMP modelling wouldn't happen.

Thanks

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:27:57 GMT

if the script doens't work check ssh works and remeber to disable "lockdown" mode

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:18:12 GMT

I've added 7 hosts to the device class EsxTop.

5 of them works just fine. But for two of them I get "Unknown error" every 30 seconds.

What might cause this?

Zenoss version 3.0.3, EsxTop zenpack version 1.0.3, VirtualHostMonitor version 2.3.6.

I've tried remodeling the devices to no avail.

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:07:04 GMT

This ZenPack is cool, the data that it provides for the Virtual Machines is sparse. Can memory usage, IO, etc be added to the Virtual Machine information? This would make it much more useful.

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:09:13 GMT

Hi, I have just setup CENTOS-5.x with all latest patches.

Successfully installed ZENOSS 3.0.3 from stack installer.

Installed Vmware Vsphere CLI (can successfully run resxtop)

I have installed ZenPacks.zenoss.ZenossVirtualHostMonitor v 2.3.6

restarted zenoss.

Under INFRASTRUCTURE --> DEVICES >DEVICE-CLASSES > SERVER

There is no "Virtual Machine Host" class.

When I try "zenpack --install ZenPacks.zenoss.EsxTop-1.0.3-py2.6.egg"

I get:

2010-12-07 14:57:11,387 INFO zen.ZPLoader: Loading /opt/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.zenoss.EsxTop-1.0.3-py2.6.egg/ZenPacks/zenoss/EsxTop/objects/objects.xml

2010-12-07 14:57:11,425 WARNING zen.AddToPack: Unable to find context path /zport/dmd/Devices/Server/Virtual Machine Host (line 4 ?) for EsxTop

2010-12-07 14:57:11,425 WARNING zen.AddToPack: Not committing any changes

2010-12-07 14:57:11,526 ERROR zen.ZenPackCmd: zenpack command failed

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenUtils/zenpack.py", line 406, in <module>

zp.run()

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenUtils/zenpack.py", line 134, in run

previousVersion= self.options.previousVersion)

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenUtils/ZenPackCmd.py", line 249, in InstallEggAndZenPack

forceRunExternal=forceRunExternal)

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenUtils/ZenPackCmd.py", line 424, in InstallDistAsZenPack

zenPack.install(dmd)

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenModel/ZenPack.py", line 251, in install

loader.load(self, app)

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenModel/ZenPackLoader.py", line 99, in load

importer.loadObjectFromXML(xmlfile=f)

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenRelations/ImportRM.py", line 458, in loadObjectFromXML

parser.parse(self.infile)

File "/opt/zenoss/python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", line 109, in parse

xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)

File "/opt/zenoss/python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/xmlreader.py", line 123, in parse

self.feed(buffer)

File "/opt/zenoss/python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", line 216, in feed

self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal)

File "/opt/zenoss/python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", line 312, in start_element

self._cont_handler.startElement(name, AttributesImpl(attrs))

File "/opt/zenoss/zenoss/Products/ZenRelations/ImportRM.py", line 152, in startElement

'attributes:\n%s' % formattedAttrs)

Exception: Unable to create object using the following attributes:

* id: /zport/dmd/Devices/Server/Virtual Machine Host/EsxTop

* module: Products.ZenModel.DeviceClass

* class: DeviceClass

Any suggestions?

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:38:17 GMT

A good article on Interpreting ESX top stats, is located on VMWares site:

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9279

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:43:24 GMT

Installed OK but returns hundreds of "VMs" instead of the dozen or so that I have running, looks almost like everything that is running as a process has been called a VM e.g. vmvisor, vpxa, vscsiData etc.

Running ESXi 4.1.0

Any ideas?

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:31:27 GMT

Hi. I've tried this Zenpack and everything is good except for the VM Host memory graph. We're monitoring esxi 3.5 VM host. The Host only show a value of 0 (not NaN). Upon investigation, it seems that the command used by the template (check_esxtop -u "root" -p xxxxxxxx -s 1.1.1.1 -d Memory), outputs two "Free MBytes" data which is used in the template.

Memory Overcommit (1 Minute Avg)        0.00
Memory Overcommit (5 Minute Avg)        0.00
Memory Overcommit (15 Minute Avg)       0.00
Machine MBytes 7915
Console MBytes 0
Kernel MBytes   362
NonKernel MBytes        2782
Free MBytes     4770
Kernel Managed MBytes   7670
Kernel MinFree MBytes   460
Kernel Reserved MBytes 1028
Kernel Unreserved MBytes        6476
Kernel State    0
Free MBytes     0
Swap Total MBytes       0
Swap Free MBytes        0
Swap MBytes Read_sec    0.00
Swap MBytes Write_sec   0.00
PShare Shared MBytes    307
PShare Common MBytes    122
PShare Savings MBytes   185
Swap Used MBytes        0
Swap Target MBytes      0
Swap MBytes Read_sec    0.00
Swap MBytes Write_sec   0.00
Total Compressed MBytes 0
Total Saved By Compression MBytes       0
Memctl Current MBytes   0
Memctl Target MBytes    0
Memctl Max MBytes       665

The first one has the correct value while the other has the value of 0 which I think is the one shown in the graph. So any solution for the graph to get the correct value?

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:13:00 GMT

Hello,

Is there any way to encrypt the password?

Device: hostname
Component:
Severity: Warning
Time: 2011/02/17 11:06:33.000
Message:
Command timed out on device hostname: '/usr/local/zenoss/zenoss/ZenPacks/ZenPacks.zenoss.EsxTop-1.0.3-py2.6.egg/ZenPacks/zenoss/EsxTop/libexec/check_esxtop -u "user" -p password -s xxx.xx.xx.xx -d "Group Memory" -c vscsiSG'

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:02:56 GMT

I found a fix for errors I was seeing when this zenpack was trying to gather data. Add "" around the password portion of the command in each data source. This also will allow you to use passwords that contain the "&" symbol. Example:

${here/ZenPackManager/packs/ZenPacks.zenoss.EsxTop/path}/libexec/check_esxtop -s ${dev/manageIp} -u "${dev/zCommandUsername}" -p "${dev/zCommandPassword}" -d "Group Cpu" -c host

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:37:49 GMT

In case anyone has problems getting resxtop to work on Ubuntu 64 bit servers. You need to install the following according to http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/vcli41/vsp4_41_vcli_relnotes.html

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev perl-doc liburi-perl libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl ia32-libs

I recieved the error "exec: 527: /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/bin/resxtop: not found" when trying to run resxtop until I installed these.

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:12:47 GMT

We are now using the Fedora 13 x64 aand Zenoss Core 3.1. The resxtop command runs with the following error messages in both 'root' and zenoss' users.

/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: line 328: /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/bin/resxtop: Permission denied
/usr/lib/vmware-vcli/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: line 328: /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/bin/resxtop: Success

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:35:18 GMT

Hi,

Yesterday, I tried check_esxtop on the CentOS built appliance and it worked fine. Now, I'm trying to make it run on Ubuntu server and to have dependancy problems with Python and the command-not-found utility. Since Ubuntu and CentOS packages name differ a bit, I'm a bit confused. Ubuntu is 10.04LTS 32bits. resxtop command has been tested and work fine.

Here's the feedback I get when running check_esxtop from to command line using zenoss user:

/usr/bin/python: /usr/local/zenoss/common/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/python)
/usr/bin/python: /usr/local/zenoss/common/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by /usr/bin/python)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/command-not-found", line 10, in <module>
import CommandNotFound
ImportError: No module named CommandNotFound

Any ideas?

Thanks

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:38 GMT

Hello there

We have just recently upgraded to Zenoss 3.21 and when I model the ESX host I get the following output (below note error'ERROR: Differing number of param names vs values received ') non of the VMs show under the components list, the graphs are working fine.

Has anyone any pointers to find the issue? SNMP appears to be working

The only difference I casn think of is we are using vsphere client CLI v5, I have noticed that the old server does return less paramaters

Old server

Members 0 Used 0.00 Run 0.00 System 0.00 Wait 0.00 Ready 0.00 Idle 0.00 Overlap 0.00 CoStop 0.00 Max Limited 0.00 Swap Wait 0.00 Switches_sec 0.00 Migrates_sec 0.00 Processor Migrations_sec 0.00 Wakeup Migrate Idle_sec 0.00 Quantum Expires_sec 0.00 Wakeups_sec 0.00 Alloc Min 0 Alloc Max 0 Alloc Shares 0 Alloc Min Limited 0 Timers_sec 0.00

New Server

cheers

2012-02-21 10:40:05,697 INFO zen.ZenModeler: Connecting to localhost:8789

2012-02-21 10:40:05,754 INFO zen.ZenModeler: plugins: zenoss.cmd.esx.esxtop

2012-02-21 10:40:05,755 INFO zen.PythonClient: Running esxtop modeler plugin

2012-02-21 10:40:05,756 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No command plugins found for NLESX01

2012-02-21 10:40:05,757 INFO zen.ZenModeler: SNMP monitoring off for NLESX01

2012-02-21 10:40:05,757 INFO zen.ZenModeler: No portscan plugins found for NLESX01

2012-02-21 10:40:19,182 INFO zen.PythonClient: Python client finished collection for NLESX01

2012-02-21 10:40:19,183 ERROR zen.ZenModeler: ERROR: Differing number of param names vs values received

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:02:00 GMT

any advice on this would be appreciatted

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:55:23 GMT

Nathan,

Sorry to hear that you are having that issue with the ZEN pack for vsphere.

Years ago I tried using Zen for some things. It didn't go very well and I

moved on to other NMS products that fit better for the situation I was

working on at the moment. To be honest I don't even remember how it turned

out with the Zen issue I was having. But overall, I didn't end up using

Zen.

Good Luck,

Ben

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:26:01 GMT

I'm trying to use this zenpack with ESXi5 with Zenoss 3.2.1. I need to use a non-root user and unfortunately, resxtop's own man pages say this is not possible. I might be able to possibly give in on that requirement with the exception that the root password is shown in plain text as a command line argument on the zenoss host and can be easily seen when viewing top or ps on my zenoss host. Are there any thoughts or ideas on how to somehow make this work without using root or to hide the root password?

RE: VMware Infrastructure ESX Server

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:51:36 GMT

Hi Nathan,

I think I am getting the same problem with vSphere CLI 5 and this ZenPack. When doing the check_esxtop

ERROR: No valid data received, removing cache file...

Did you find a solution ?

Cheers

Edit:

Same problem with CLI 4.1. I tested only check_esxtop