Check out Shyam’s entry in the (now closed) VI Toolkit for Windows Scripting Contest, PowerAlarm Manager. It allows you to create alarms on any item in the VC inventory based on any perf metric. This is way cool – I’ve never quite understood why this functionality is not natively available. The Ready Time metric for [...]
Yes yes, hard to believe but we have had a great response from the initial release from people all over the globe, including some improvements that we thought should go in straight away!
In this release, we have added:
- hosts that contact the appliance via the python script now are placed into an “unregistered hosts” section, [...]
In all our anxiousness to get the statelesx 1.0.0 appliance out, we totally forgot to post up the client initiator script! So here it is:
#!/usr/bin/pythonimport socketimport sysimport re#Open esx.conf, read onlyesxconf = open(“/etc/vmware/esx.conf”, “r”)#Define regular expressionsgetUUID = re.compile (“/system/uuid.=.(.*)”)#Search esx.conf for matchesfor line in esxconf.readlines(): UUID = getUUID.findall(line) for uuid in UUID: uuid = uuid.strip(‘”‘)#Close esx.confesxconf.close()#Define statelesx server [...]
After my previous postings on the VirtualCenter upgrade process, I had some correspondence with VMware devs that was proxied by John Troyer from the VMTN Blog. During the course of that correspondence, I lamented the generic names given to the stats rollup SQL agent jobs. SQL agent jobs are created per-instance and thus having generic [...]
A big thanks to all those who responded with offers of help for the hosting, the first of who was Dan Milisic over at DesktopECHO who of course has an appliance of his own! Jeff O’Connor from VMware Australia was hot on his heels with some bandwidth too, thanks for that mate
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