VMWare Server under Linux ?

[n00b]

Hi,

I'm running VMWare server under linux and was trying to find a template or script to monitor it.

I found many things about VMWare ESX server, but I'm not sure it works the same way.

Any clue ?

Regards.

[ehall]

The ESX stuff is totally different. It writes performance data to /proc/vmworld while the GSX/Server line doesn't do anything like that.

VMware Server under Linux doesn't have any real management interfaces to speak of. In theory you could write a script that does things with the "vmx" processes, like look at the amount of memory in use, current processor usage, etc., and then spit that back out to Cacti somehow. Even then you'd only be able to see resource allocation from the VM to the host, and would not be able to see resource allocation within the VM itself (although that can be gathered from the guests by installing SNMP onto them directly).

VMware Server under Windows is only slightly better in that it at least has a WMI perfmon dll, but that's got some serious bugs in it.

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