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Vmware-Monitor for Xymon (VMX)

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Core features of Vmware-Monitor for Xymon (VMX):

supports VMware ESX 3.5/ESXi 3.5, ESX 4.0/ESXi 4.0 (vSphere), ESX 4.1/ESXi 4.1 (VMware-server-2.0.x unofficially supported by vMA 4.0 w/o SP)
no modification on VMware hosts needed (no support/warranty implications)
uses official method provided by VMware (again: support-friendly)
current CPU- and memory-usage, both of the ensemble of all VMware hosts, for each individual host and each running VM (and graphical trending of these and more of course)
warning if a host is in maintainance-mode or has the "reboot-needed" flag set
tracking of VM start/stop/move on each VMware host (no matter if the VM was moved by vmotion, DRS, manually added/removed). So it's possible to easily determine when a VM was started or stopped on (or moved to) a particular host.
vMEM/pMEM-ratio, i.e. how much of the physically available RAM is assigned to the running VMs per VMware host
one-click overview/summary of the complete monitored VMware environment on one overview-page with the following data:
- For each VMware host monitored overview-line with the following metrics is available:
  - number of running VMs (and vCPUs)
  - available CPU and RAM-resources
  - current CPU- and RAM-usage
  - number of monitored VMware hosts
  - total CPU (MHz) available
  - CPU used
  - software version/patch-level of each VMware host
  - CPU model
- A summary of all monitored hosts is available with the following data:
  - total vCPU-count running
  - total physical RAM available
  - virtual RAM used
overview-page for each VMware host along w/ it's status and the currently running VMs
central configuration of VMware-monitoring on the Xymon server
perfect integration with Xymon/Hobbit monitoring system
easy, quick and clean (non-intrusive) installation
ressource friendly: low monitoring overhead due to non-forking design on the server-side and minimized disk-access to avoid I/O problems