Comments on: Monitoring VMWare’s Free ESXi 3.5 with Cacti

By: Graph VMware ESXi through Cacti - Admins Goodies

Graph VMware ESXi through Cacti - Admins Goodies — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:25:23 +0000

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By: amg

amg — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:01:38 +0000

By the way, any one knows which ports on firewall should I open for this to work?

By: amg

amg — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:59:48 +0000

Great job. Many thanks for sharing. Works fine on ESXi 4, monitoring from ubuntu.

Just to save some time from others. Running esxstats.pl from command gave the following error:

/usr/local/share/cacti/scripts# perl esxstats.pl

perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl/5.10/auto/XML/LibXML/Common/Common.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

If you use Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS you need to install following packages too:

perl-XML-LibXML perl-XML-LibXML-Common perl-XML-SAX perl-XML-DOM perl-XML-Parser perl-XML-RegExp perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Data-Dump perl-Class-MethodMaker

By: Chungyih

Chungyih — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:41:35 +0000

I got everything into cacti great and configured but nothing was showing up. running it from commandline:
/usr/share/cacti/site/scripts# perl esxstats.pl

BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at esxstats.pl line 7.

is what i get, any suggestions?

By: Jon Smith

Jon Smith — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:00:59 +0000

@Lalbee99
Any chance you would be happy to share your work back to the community? Sounds like a great improvement.

Cheers,

Jon

By: Lalbee99

Lalbee99 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:50:26 +0000

I loaded this using cacti 0.8.7e and it works. I did change the perl script to be more robust. I added functions for mem & cpu reporting on a singular vm or on the cluster itself, by passing command line arguments. I then re wrote the templates for mem & cpu to reflect this change.

By: Jon Smith

Jon Smith — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:29:49 +0000

@Mohit
Not currently. The last time I looked, this information was not easy to obtain.

Cheers,

Jon

By: Mohit

Mohit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:44:05 +0000

Thanks !! But is it possible for you add bandwidth monitoring also with this

By: Jon Smith

Jon Smith — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:33:35 +0000

@tapankar Hrm, new version of Cacti out. I will try the import after I have upgraded my installation. Once upgraded I will release a new version made for 0.8.7e, this wont be until early next week.

By: tapankar

tapankar — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:17:48 +0000

I am trying to import the XML file but getting “XML parse error”.I am using cacti 0.8.7e..Could you help…