Monitoring Guest OS in ESX

[waltercrasto]

Hi All,

We have around 40+ ESX 3.X VMware servers across organization & gradully it will be growing to 75+ vmware servers.

But now we are facing major problem of monitoring guest OS uptime. Please let me know do we have tool in VMWARE that will monitor the Guest OS avaibility & trigger a alert incase of gust OS is down.

Thanks & Regards

Walter

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Assuming you're using VirtualCenter, you can configure it to send SNMP alerts to a 3rd party monitoring tools. Otherwise you might want to check out Nagios as discussed here: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=657979&#657979

[GBromage]

Hi Walter!

There isn't a specific tool (that I know of) in VMWare. Because VMWare emulates a hardware platform, if the guest OS has a software error, the host probably won't know about it. All you really have to go on is the power state.

Probably your best way of doing this would to have a monitoring server ping the guest OS's IP address, or issue an SNMP query, and check the result of that - same as you would if you were monitoring the OS on a physical machine..

[tommills]

Check out the eG VMware monitoring solution - http://www.eginnovations.com/web/vmware.htm

TOM