Ian, I did some testing of the VMWare check for Servers Alive back in December, 2007. I was able to get it working well enough to detect if a virtual machine was up or down, but after the testing was completed, I talked about the check with my contact in our infrastructure group and couldn't come up with a good use for the check. If we wanted to know if the machine was running or not, we would just ping the box. We have had problems in the past with VMWare where the virtual machine would be up and running, but would not respond to any network requests, so the VMWare check wouldn't detect the failure.
I've just tried to get the check up and running again, but I can't remember all the details on the config. I do remember it required the VMWare-vm com api, which I think Dirk had to send me as it wasn't available from the vmware website anymore. Anyways, my config is now giving the message "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it." Something has changed with the VMWare server since I last tested against it, and I'm not sure what. Regards, Brett Hanson Systems Analyst, Agrium Inc. >>> "Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/28/2008 10:31:00 AM >>> Are you also trying towards ESX? Maybe that Brett Hanson can give some advice, he tested this towards ESX 3.02 back in December 2007 Dirk Bulinckx. -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 6:05 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] VMWare check Noop, it doesn't work for me either. And when I try to configure the test I wonder why you would like to test if a machine is up on a specific host. If you use ESX, you most likely have HA and you don't care on which host a machine is running. To test if a machine is up and running, use ping and diskspace checks instead. Or am I missing something?? /Per >>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> Date: 2008-04-28 17:42 Subject: RE: [SA-list] VMWare check Ummm.... you're not giving me much to go on here! Is this check working for anyone else? Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> 28/04/2008 16:10 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> To Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: [SA-list] VMWare check Well I can't tell you. This is what the Vmware APIs are returning, they don't tell us why Dirk Bulinckx. From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:56 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] VMWare check OK - so why am I getting "Invalid arguments: Login failed."? Don't say "because your arguments are invalid..." ;-) Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit "Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> 28/04/2008 15:40 Please respond to Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]> To Servers Alive Discussion List <[email protected]>cc Subject RE: [SA-list] VMWare check I think it was pointing to the ESX server when the beta testers did testing with it. Dirk Bulinckx. From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 3:41 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] VMWare check Hi, I'm trying the new VMWare check, but I'm having difficulty connecting. I'm using ESX. What I'm trying to do initially is bring up the list of virtual machines to choose from, from within the check configuration screen. If I point to the ESX host server itself, I get this error: Invalid arguments: Login failed. If I point to VirtualCenter server, I get this: Network failure: Cannot connect to host [our servername]: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it Which should I be pointing to? Why isn't it working? 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