UNNOC - Virtual Monitoring Appliance

In my hunt for a solid monitoring solution for my ever-growing VMware environment, I came across UNNOC. It uses rrdtool for the lovely graphs and you can even download it as a Virtual Appliance from their website or from VMware.com/appliances. It uses the Virtual Center SDK to tie into metrics for virtual machines and VI3 servers and is also capable of using SNMP to monitor your other servers. I have mine currently configured to also monitor my Virtual Center server for things such as

• CPU Utilization of vpxs.exe (Virtual Center Service)
• CPU Utilization of tomcat5.exe (Virtual Center Web Access)
• CPU Utilization of lmgrd.exe (License Server)
• Disk Usage
• Memory Statistics

• et al.

Since the appliance is driven mostly with PHP and mySQL, I feel pretty comfortable hacking it to bits to provide what I want, a solid bird’s eye view that will report the following for the entire environment:

• Top 5 Busiest LUNs
• Top 5 Busiest Hosts by CPU
• Top 5 Busiest Hosts by Ethernet
• Top 5 Busiest Hosts by Fibre Channel
• Top 5 Busiest Hosts by Memory
• Top 5 Busiest VMs
• Virtual Center Service CPU Utilization

• SQL Server Service responsible for VC Database

That’s just an idea, but I want the ability to monitor important metrics from a single view (perhaps across multiple monitors) that will especially let me keep an eye on the SAN performance as well as Virtual Center. As I make progress with this page, I’ll post it up for all to enjoy.

Cheers.

- Jason Langone

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