get-esxtop

[rcowen]

What settings / permissions are required to retrieve output from the Get-EsxTop cmdlet?

I don't receive an error, but I don't receive any data, either.

Thanks

[LucD]

What exactly did you try?

Did you see ESXTOP Available Through PowerCLI

[rcowen]

Here is the sample powershell code.

It ends up calling FetchStats like the samples I have seen.

Richard

##############################

  $host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = "Collectvmware VC01
Get-EsxTop-Hosts 09/20/2017 15:01:24";

  $moduleList = @(

   "VMware.VimAutomation.Core",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.Vds",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.PCloud",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.Storage",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.HA",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.vROps",

   "VMware.VumAutomation",

   "VMware.DeployAutomation",

   "VMware.ImageBuilder",

   "VMware.VimAutomation.License"

   "SQLPS"

    )

  $loaded = Get-Module -Name $moduleList -ErrorAction
SilentlyContinue | % {$_.Name}

  $registered = Get-Module -Name $moduleList
-ListAvailable -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | % {$_.Name}

  $notLoaded = $registered | ? {$loaded -notcontains
$_}

        
Write-Host "about to import modules"

  foreach ($module in $registered) {

    if ($loaded -notcontains $module) {

        
Write-Progress -Activity $module

        
Write-Host "about to import $module"

        
Import-Module $module

              
    }

              
}

set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -confirm:$false -Scope Session

Function Get-EsxtopAPI {

param(

[Parameter(

  Position=0,

  Mandatory=$true,

  ValueFromPipeline=$true,

  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)

]

[VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.InventoryItemImpl]$VMHost

)

$serviceManager = Get-View
($global:DefaultVIServer.ExtensionData.Content.serviceManager) -property "" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$locationString = "vmware.host." +
$VMHost.Name

$services = $serviceManager.QueryServiceList($null,$locationString)

  foreach ($service in $services) {

   if($service.serviceName -eq "Esxtop") {

    $serviceView = Get-View
$services.Service -Property "entity"

    $serviceView.ExecuteSimpleCommand("CounterInfo")

    break

    }

   }

  }

Function Get-EsxtopStat {

param(

[Parameter(

  Position=0,

  Mandatory=$true,

  ValueFromPipeline=$true,

  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)

]

[VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.InventoryItemImpl]$VMHost

)

$serviceManager = Get-View
($global:DefaultVIServer.ExtensionData.Content.serviceManager) -property "" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

$locationString = "vmware.host." +
$VMHost.Name

  Write-Host "vmhost: " $VMHost.Name

  Write-Host "location: "$locationString

$services = $serviceManager.QueryServiceList($null,$locationString)

  foreach ($service in $services) {

   $service.serviceName | fl *

   if($service.serviceName -eq "Esxtop")
{

    $serviceView = Get-View
$services.Service -Property "entity"

    $serviceView.ExecuteSimpleCommand("FetchStats")

    $serviceView.ExecuteSimpleCommand("FreeStats")

    break

    }

   }

  }

connect-viserver -server 192.xxx.xxx.xxx -username administrator@vsphere.local
-password wwwwwww

$mytime=Get-Date -UFormat %T

Write-Host time $mytime

$host.ui.RawUI.WindowTitle = "Collectvmware VC01 cppesx01.xxxx.xxx.com Get-EsxTop $mytime";

Write-Host "***Get-VMHost -Name
"cppesx01.xxxx.xxx.com" PIPE Get-EsxtopAPI output***"

Get-VMHost -Name "cppesx01.xxxx.xxx.com" | Get-EsxtopAPI

Write-Host "***Get-VMHost -Name "cppesx01.xxxx.xxx.com" PIPE Get-EsxtopStat output***"

Get-VMHost
-Name "cppesx01.xxxx.xxx.com" | Get-EsxtopStat

Disconnect-VIServer * -Confirm:$false

###############################################

[LucD]

That is not using Get-EsxTop.

The function Get-EsxTopStat is calling the esxtop service directly, as William described in Using the vSphere API in vCenter Server to collect ESXTOP & vscsiStats metrics

Under which account are you running this?
An account that has the admin role on the ESXi node?
And you are connected to the ESXi node I assume?

[rcowen]

I realize the function is using a service named Esxtop while connected to a vCenter- I am attempting to avoid connecting to a ESXi host directly.

The account has Service Manager role enabled (I am informed.)

When I use this in an environment that works, I get back:

vmhost:  cppesx01.xxxx.com               <== from a  Write-Host

location:  vmware.host.cppesx01.xxxx.com     <== from a  Write-Host

Esxtop                                                        <== from a   $service.serviceName | fl *

==NUM-OF-OBJ==                                    <== from the $serviceView.ExecuteSimpleCommand("FetchStats")

|Server|PCPU,1|PMem,1|Sched,1|SCSI,1|Nfs,1|Vscsi,1|Net,1|Interrupt,1|Power,1|

(a lot of stat info follows as expected.)

Is there a condition that would cause:

$serviceManager = Get-View ($global:DefaultVIServer.ExtensionData.Content.serviceManager) -property "" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

to fail, and exit the function Get-EsxTop immediately?

Thanks