Run ESXTOP tool from vROps

[praveen2sas]

Hello friends, 

Can we run esxtop tool using vROps against the host and collect the logs ?

[daphnissov]

No, you can't. What are you trying to accomplish? There may be a better way.

[praveen2sas]

I want to monitor/collect these metrics %VMWAIT, %DRPTX,%DRPRX through vROps

[sxnxr]

Vrops has

Network I/O|Received Packets Dropped and Network I/O|Transmitted Packets Dropped

and several cpu wait metric allready

[daphnissov]

As sxnxr said, there's no need to use esxtop for that as those metrics are gathered. Also, keep in mind the difference between esxtop and vROps is that esxtop is a real-time tool whereas vROps is only historical.

[hussainbte]

You can run esxtop from vCenter webclient.

there are certain limitations though.

https://www.vladan.fr/free-esxtop-vsphere-web-client-plugin/

Also check for VisualESXtop if you have to have a GUI based esxtop monitoring.