This is just an update, but the scripts I wrote for use with Nagios and ESX3i seem to work just fine with ESX4i (at least in my home lab environment using Dell Poweredge 2850s).
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I had a little time today and needed to mentally switch gears so I took a look again at the 3i storage script for Nagios and made some changes to it to clean it up a little bit. I also made clones…er …versions rather…. for monitoring CPU status, memory status, and sensor data (i.e. [...] In earlier posts when I mentioned the use of IPMI I don’t think I ever circled back around on where we stood with that. While we can get some information about the status of the hardware via IPMI I haven’t been able to figure out how to get at the array controller to get the status. I’ve looked at sites like Nagios Exchange and some others, but none of those had what I was looking for. I found one script that came close but would only tell me when the RAID disk was actually rebuilding, not when it was degraded. If we were to use RAID5 it might have been useful, but since we’re talking about going forward with RAID 6 to minimize our window of vulnerability and we’re using large disks. So that’s why I went back and looked at the VMware SDK and VI-Perl toolkit. Now that I have a script that will work from the command line I needed to take it and make it work for Nagios since that’s what we’ll probably end up using to monitor these servers once they’re deployed. (We’ll look at Dell’s IT Assistant again since we’re a dot version or two behind but I’m not holding out high hopes.) Continue reading Nagios Monitoring of ESX 3i on our PowerEdge |
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