Monitoring HP ESXi Hosts using Insight Remote Support
December 22nd, 2011 by Youzhny
This is just a direct link to the HP Blog article itself but worth a read if you are looking at monitoring any HP server running ESX or ESXi. The main bit that I have always found is that you need to install the HP extensions for ESXi installed as this greatly improves what you can see from remote tools such as Insight Remote Support, Nagios/Opsview or from the vSphere client itself. (more…)
How to enable SNMP for ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.x, and 5.0
December 22nd, 2011 by Youzhny
Last night I wrote an article about how to monitor the health of an ESXi server (link here) and I wanted to explain a bit more about my findings with SNMP on an ESXi host.
My goal with the monitoring was to use the check_dell and check_hp commands I have found for Nagios/Opsview to monitor the hardware that ESX is running on. The ESXi installs I am working with are using the Dell and HP management...