vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) : ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl) : Comments

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

lamw — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:19:29 GMT

Note, VMware ESXi 3.5u4 was just released and the internal API seems to have been fixed and exposed VI API will have only read-only access when using the free licensed version of ESXi. This script will most likely not work on U4, please be advised if you're going to upgrade. I have not had a chance to verify but I believe this will be the case: http://tinyurl.com/cxayy6 U3 will continue to have this hole in the API to provide both read/write access to the VI API.

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

Sully1900 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:20:05 GMT

What's the proper "document" link for setting up the apcupsd.conf file? The current link points to an rpm file. Thanks.

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

lamw — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:23:33 GMT

It should be: http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1341

I've updated the document, this document primarily covers the setup of vMA and the shutdown scripts. The apcupsd conf is covered in Joesph's VIOPS documentation, it utilizes this script.

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RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

DaveHill — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:58:40 GMT

This looks like a useful script.

Is there a reason why you do each guest individually (issue shutdown, sleep, power off)?

If you have a lot of VMs then this could take a while, especially if you need to extend the timeout because of (say) an Exchange Server.

Can you shutdown more than one machine at a time - I was thinking along the lines of:

foreach (vm)
issue shutdown
done

sleep (some time to allow all machines to shutdown)

foreach (vm)
power off
done

shutdown host

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

duz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:27:05 GMT

hi all...i don't know why but it seems to work on vima 1.0 but not on vma 4.0...
In vma 4.0 i have comunications lost problem..
Any help?

thk
Alessandro

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

lamw — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:13:12 GMT

This was written when ESX(i) 3.5 and VIMA 1.0 was available (also described in the requirements). I've not had the cycles to verify against ESX(i) 4.0 and vMA, it should work but I've not tested and have not advertised this script to support vMA 4.0

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

vipernicus42 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:56:24 GMT

Hey,

So I've got a simple test setup going:

vmbox1.domain.com ESXi 3.5u3 host which has one guest
- "vmguest1.domain.com" - a win2k "workstation"
vmbox2.domain.com ESXi 3.5u3 host which has one guest
- vMA-vmbox2.domain.com - a vMA 4.0 virtual appliance (I can't find a copy of 1.0 to download ANYWHERE!)

I've got vmbox1 added in vMA with no issues, I can initialize with FastPass and run commands like "vicfg-nics -l --vihost vmbox1" with no issues

I can even run the script, it finds the host and outputs exactly what you'd expect, ending with the line "HOST: vmbox1.domain.com is shutting down!"

But it doesn't shut down. It doesn't do -anything-.

I'm actually running the ghettoShutdown.pl command directly, not using the wrapper for the UPS, just to simplify things. Here's the command I issued on the console of vMA, logged in as vi-admin, after doing vifpinit:

./ghettoShutdown.pl --server vmbox1.domain.com --username root --password password --ups_vm vMA-vmbox2 --sleep 30

Any ideas why the target ESXi box would do absolutely nothing?

I know your last post says that vMA 4.0 hasn't been tested, but I can't find a download link for 1.0 anywhere, else I'd be using it.

Jon

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

lamw — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:18:57 GMT

As mentioned, vMA 4.0 has not been tested and it probably won't work due to the updated paths to some of the vCLI scripts.

VIMA 1.0 is definitely hidden, since vMA 4.0 is what VMware wants everyone to use. Through some digging, I found the download page: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/vima10/vima10relnotes.html The download link is in the middle of the page

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RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

vipernicus42 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:15:49 GMT

Awesome, downloading now.

If I could figure out how to award points for "correct" or "helpful" (as per your sig) I most definitely would!

I'll let you guys know how it works out.

Jon

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

vipernicus42 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:09:26 GMT

As promised, I have returned with results.

OK, so I can confirm that this works in both vMA 1.0 -AND- vMA 4.0

The difference is in the version of ESXi that you're trying to do the remote shutdown command on.

ESXi 3.5u3 (build 123629) will respond to the shutdown command with no issues
ESXi 3.5u4 (build 153875) will completely ignore the command

From the vMA console, the output of the perl script is identical. The only difference is the result.

I suspect that this is a licensing thing. I'm using the "Free" license for both u3 and u4, and I figure they probably took away the ability to do that in the "Free" version of u4.

So now you folks have a confirmed case of it working with vMA 4.0 + ESXi 3.5u3, and a confirmed case of it not working with 3.5u4 no matter which vMA you're using!

I hope this helps someone out... And I hope we can find a way to get this working on the later versions or I'm going to have to start hunting for "old" hardware when we want to build new ESXi servers!

Jon

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

SirToby — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:24:25 GMT

Hello everyone,

I tried the same under esxi 4.0 single server (i.e. the free version) and

followed the how-to here ("http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9308") and ended with a status:COMMLOST-issue too. (same as "http://vmware-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=72807" in german)
faced the same results when starting the upsVIShutdown.pl directly (it creates the logfile ending "HOST: SERVERNAME is shutting down!" but not shutting down anything, neither the VMs nor the host

IMHO this script doesn't work with ESXi 4.0 single server version.
I'll check with ESXi 4.0 non-free-version and post the results later this week.

Anyhow: thanks to lamw for share!

Michael

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

duz — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:33:20 GMT

scripts work, the problem is power chute signal from UPS.
I tried to test my apc 8000 and it doesn't work.
It is a communication problem from vmware-guest and UPS.
I check firewall but it seems ok.

With vime-1.0, all ok.

thk
ciao
Alessandro

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

SirToby — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:19:50 GMT

Hi,
just to produce no cliffhanger:
I decided to swap from ESXi 4.0 to ESX 4.0, because I some other reasons to do so.
PowerChute Network Shutdown 2.2.1 works fine with ESX 4.0.

Michael

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

Newftronics — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:45:54 GMT

Hello

I have followed all of the instruction to the letter but I am not having any luck. From what I have been reading ESXi 3.5.0, 123629 will respond to the two scripts upsVIShutdown.pl and ghettoShutdown.pl. Unfortunatly when I run the command ./upsVIShutdown.pl nothing happens. I do not get anything logged into the log either /tmp/upsShutdown.log.

The first doc that I found was a file called ESXi and APC UPS VIOPS (with lamw scripts).pdf which is different than the second file I found called DOC-9531.pdf which states under the Setup Section " 1. Ensure your ESX/ESXi host(s) are being managed by VMware VIMA " which maybe where my problem lyes. Excuse my ignorance here but I am unsure what this means. I am using the free version of ESXi. Is this simply something that I have to purchase and setup on my ESXi Server?

Thx

Jason

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

lamw — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:44:15 GMT

Is your ESXi hosts being managed by VIMA 1.0? If not, then this will not work and make sure its VIMA 1.0 and not vMA 4.0

Regarding documentation, the setup of your environment should following this document, anything related to the UPS utilities, take a look at Joesph's comprehensive doc at: http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1341

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RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

Newftronics — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:05:53 GMT

Thank you William. I found my error and as it turns out the command sudo vifp addserver <servername> is all I was missing. However as stated above by vipernicus42 ESXi 3.5u3 (build 123629) will respond to the shutdown command with no issues and ESXi 3.5u4 (build 153875) will completely ignore the command and I ave two ESXi Servers with build 153875 and one with build 123629 I only have partial success. That will teach me for loosing my original downloaded ESXi 3.5u3 (build 123629)CD and downloading a new ESXi 3.5u4 (build 153875)CD.

Other than backing up my VMs on the ESXi 3.5u4 (build 153875)ESXi Servers and redoing the ESXi 3.5u4 (build 153875)Servers to the older Build of 123629 is there a way to make this work on the ESXi 3.5u4 (build 153875) Servers?

Thx Again
Jason

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

lamw — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:50:21 GMT

Take a look at my first comment on this document, u4 is not supported.

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RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

tlyczko — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:44:32 GMT

Hello, has anyone had time/opportunity to test this with ESX 4 or 4i and vMA 4.0??

Or should one set up VIMA 1.0 to use this with ESX 4/4i??

Thank you, Tom

RE: ESX/ESXi APC/APCUPSD Host Shutdown VI Perl Toolkit Script (ghettoShutdown.pl/upsVIShutdown.pl)

lamw — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:43:40 GMT

It 'should' work on ESX(i) 4.0 and you'll need to use vMA 4.0 as VIMA 1.0 does not support ESX(i) 4.0

The code does not use any special API calls that isn't available in the vSphere SDK for Perl, though you will need to have a properly licensed ESXi 4.0, you will not be able to use the free licensed version due to the API lock down from ESXi 3.5u4+ and going forward which includes 4.0

I've not had the time to test but let us know if it does work.

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