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October 29th, 2010 17:00
monitoring processes for a linux host in vFoglight
Hello:
I am currently able to monitor the processes for my Windows VMs by doing the following:
Open vmExplorer
Expand Virtual Machines under Topology
Click on the virtual machine and then click the Processes tab
Click the Host Configuration Wizard link and run through the wizard entering in the administrator username and password and making sure
windows is the chosen operating system and ensuring the enable process collection for this host is checked. Click Next. Make sure WMI is checked.
And then clicked Finish. In about 15 minutes I am able to see the running processes on the system, etc. I don't need to install any
Foglight agent components.
Now when I try and do the same thing with a linux host I am not able to ever see any of the running processes. For the linux host I do the following:
Open vmExplorer
Expand Virtual Machines under Topology
Click on the virtual machine and then click the Processes tab
Click the Host Configuration Wizard link and run through the wizard entering in the root username and password and making sure
linux is the chosen operating system and ensuring the enable process collection for this host is checked. Click Next. Make sure that the
SSH port is set to 22. Click Next. And then clicked Finish. After waiting for a long time nothing ever appears. I am able to ssh to this VM
from everywhere in my network.
So is it possible to monitor the processes in a linux VM (without installing an agent) like I can monitor a Windows VM?
Thanks.
Mark
I am currently able to monitor the processes for my Windows VMs by doing the following:
Open vmExplorer
Expand Virtual Machines under Topology
Click on the virtual machine and then click the Processes tab
Click the Host Configuration Wizard link and run through the wizard entering in the administrator username and password and making sure
windows is the chosen operating system and ensuring the enable process collection for this host is checked. Click Next. Make sure WMI is checked.
And then clicked Finish. In about 15 minutes I am able to see the running processes on the system, etc. I don't need to install any
Foglight agent components.
Now when I try and do the same thing with a linux host I am not able to ever see any of the running processes. For the linux host I do the following:
Open vmExplorer
Expand Virtual Machines under Topology
Click on the virtual machine and then click the Processes tab
Click the Host Configuration Wizard link and run through the wizard entering in the root username and password and making sure
linux is the chosen operating system and ensuring the enable process collection for this host is checked. Click Next. Make sure that the
SSH port is set to 22. Click Next. And then clicked Finish. After waiting for a long time nothing ever appears. I am able to ssh to this VM
from everywhere in my network.
So is it possible to monitor the processes in a linux VM (without installing an agent) like I can monitor a Windows VM?
Thanks.
Mark
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lmurphy1
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October 29th, 2010 17:00
If you go to the Guest Processes dashboard within the vFoglight console (left-side tray under Homes) do you see any alarms in the upper right hand corner?
If so, what does the alarm say?
Can you resolve the VM name that is presented in vFoglight from the machine running vFoglight? If the name is larry.mydomain.com within the vFog console, I need to make sure that I can ping and resolve that machine from the vFog machine.
-Larry