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Perl scripts in APM 2.0

We are working on configuring APM with the hopes of being able to execute some perl scripts that are found in the VMware Perl toolkit for monitoring the new ESX3i line of servers. We are having an issue finding a way to set this up. APM wants to make an SSH connection and this is not possible on an ESX3i host. However the perl scripts provided by vmware run against port 443 on the VMware ESX3i servers. But it's not SSH but rather HTTPS. So we are at a roadblock. Here's what I think would fix this problem.

I can run the perl scripts for performance monitoring on my workstation and receive the output locally when I run the script against the remote server. Is it possible to execute a perl script on the Solarwinds server itself and capture the received output? Is APM attempting to run the scripts remotely on the host rather than on the Solarwinds server?

Thanks for any help!

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josh.clark

Linux Script Monitors run on the target machine. Windows Script Monitors run on the Orion Server. If the perl scripts you have will run on Windows, you should be able to create a Windows Script Monitor that will call the perl script for you.

You will need to change the Script Engine setting on the monitor to PerlScript. This is assuming you are using ActiveState's perl implementation.

You will need to change the script's output to match the output required by an APM script monitor, but that should just require changing the print statements in the script.

Let us know if you get it running - or even better, post the templates to the Content Sharing Zone.

elwappo

I'll be happy to let you know what we come up with. But just so you guys know this data is available to pull from any 3i host via:

performance.pl

vmperformance.pl

both scripts found in the perl kits freely downloadable from VMware. Also there is a TOP equivilant for VMware 3i and 3.5.0 called RESXTOP. This tool must be run from a linux host and you can redirect the output to a file and view the data. What we are struggling with is finding an application that can do this for us. We are hoping that we can do it with solarwinds. We have had great success with it in the past but this is proving to be very difficult. Again I would like to formerly request a feature for APM or Solarwinds to be able to pull this data from a ESX3i host. If I can pull it with perl scripts and top monitors surely you smart guys can meld it into this awesome product you have!