ESXTOP Question

[josiah75]

Hello All,

I am using the esxtop command to gather data for a project I am working on.  The information I have read is that to collect data I would run this command:  "nohup esxtop –b –d 60 –n 60 > /file/location/esxtop.csv"  According to this command it will collect data every 60 seconds for 60 intervals which would come out to 1 hour.  I executed the command and i ended up stopping the command after running for 1 hour and 10 min. because it was still running.  Are the syntax I am using to run this command incorrect?  The verison of ESXi the command is running on is ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 7a.

[ThompsG]

Hi there,

Syntax looks good but you look to be missing “&” at the end.

Kind regards.

[josiah75]

Ampersand on the end of the command just makes it run in the background.  When I ran the command it ran continuously for over the amount of iterations I entered in the command, so if it ran in the background I am afraid it would fill up a datastore to 100% if left unchecked.  At a delay of 60 seconds and 60 iterations you would expect it to be done after 1 hour.  When I checked it at 1 hour and 10 min. later it was still running gathering data and the csv file had 71 iterations of collection when I examined the file.

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Just to rule this out, can you confirm that the hyphens in the command are correct. Your post shows ones which seem to be modified by e.g. Word.

wrong: "nohup esxtop –b –d 60 –n 60 > /file/location/esxtop.csv"

correct: "nohup esxtop -b -d 60 -n 60 > /file/location/esxtop.csv"

André

[josiah75]

Not sure it is a copy issue.  But thank you for the suggestion I have had that happen to me before.

I have to apologize to André.  I tried this again and it looks like the hyphens were copied from a different editor and were incorrect.  Typing in the command manually got the desired results.  Thank you André.