checking vmware

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

Aaron Macks wrote:

> Is there a good way to check if a VMWare GSX setup is running on Linux?  
> It creates 4 seperate types of process:
> one each of
> /usr/bin/vmnet-bridge
>  /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd
> and one per vitrual machine of
> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx
> 
> The fourth is the apache console, that I don't care about.  I don't want 
> to have to change the configs to keep up with the number of running 
> virtuals, but can't think of anything better than running several 
> check_processes

I did write a small shell script to check for different processes vie 
SNMP. It uses snmpwalk to get a processlist, and can check for more than 
one process name at a time. Should be easily modified to your needs.

I can mail that to you, but beware - I'm not a programmer, and even I 
can see lots of room for improvement there.

Arno

> Aaron

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IT-Service Lehmann                    al at its-lehmann.de
Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de


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