NAME¶
pmdavmware - VMware performance metrics domain agent (PMDA)
DESCRIPTION¶
pmdavmware is a Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA) which exports
metric values from a (possibly remote) VMware virtualisation host.
This implementation uses the VMare Perl API (refer to the online docs at
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit). VIPerl is a
prerequisite for this PMDA, it needs to be installed and configured before
attempting to use this agent. It is highly recommended that you test your
VIPerl installation using the demo programs that are shipped with VIPerl,
before attempting to use this PMDA.
INSTALLATION¶
In order to access performance data using the VIPerl API, it is necessary to be
able to login to the metrics source. Hence, a valid VMware server name, user
name and pass word are needed by the PMDA. These can be passed in on the
command line (via the pmcd.conf file) or via a vmware.conf file in the PMDA
directory.
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
# [ edit vmware.conf ]
This file should contain three lines, such as:
$server = 'vm.server.net';
$username = 'XXXX';
$password = 'YYYY';
Once this is setup, you can access the names and values for the vmware
performance metrics by doing the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
# ./Install
If you want to undo the installation, do the following as root:
# cd $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware
# ./Remove
pmdavmware is launched by
pmcd(1) and should never be executed
directly. The Install and Remove scripts notify
pmcd(1) when the agent
is installed or removed.
FILES¶
- $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/vmware.conf
- configuration file for the pmdavmware agent
- $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/Install
- installation script for the pmdavmware agent
- $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/vmware/Remove
- undo installation script for the pmdavmware agent
- $PCP_LOG_DIR/pmcd/vmware.log
- default log file for error messages from pmdavmware
SEE ALSO¶
pmcd(1).