The other day I was told to check and see if VMware Tools was installed on every Virtual Machine in our Cluster. I figured this was the perfect time for me to write another script to do this.

Here are a list of things that I want to have in the script...

• List all Virtual Machines and the VMstatus and Version if installed
• Check for toolsOK
• Check for toolsNotInstalled
• Check for toolsNotRunning
• Check for toolsOld
• And last but not least, able to do this either on a per Virtual Machine or on the entire Cluster

Well I was able to do all of the above in a nice Perl Script that I created. It can be downloaded here  vmToolsStatus.pl

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perl vmToolsStatus.pl 
        help              : Hiding the command line arguments [--help]
        --toolsOld             : This will print out all the Virtual Machines with an Old version of vmTools and you need to upgrade
        --toolsNotInstalled    : This will print out all the Virtual Machines with vmTools Not Installed
        --toolsNotRunning      : This will print out all the Virtual Machines with vmTools Not Running
        --toolsOk              : This will print out all Virtual Machines with vmTools running 
        --all             : This will print out all Virtual Machines with vmTools installed or not installed
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsOld 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsOk 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsNotInstalled 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --toolsRunning 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --all --vm_name "vm_name" 
        example           : Hiding the command line arguments --all  

Here is an example .visdkrc...

VI_SERVER = Virtual Console Server
VI_USERNAME = login
VI_PASSWORD = passwd
VI_PROTOCOL = https 
VI_PORTNUMBER = 443

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This is the 3rd and I think final revision of this script. I added the --list function, which before had to be combined with the --vm_name function. The main reason for creating this script was so that there can be an easy way to manage snapshots, especially automating the deletion, creation, reverting, and listing of snapshots. If you find this script or any of my scripts useful, please let me know.

perl vm_snapshot.pl --list
Platinum
  name:         test1
  description:  
  state:        poweredOff
  vm type:      VirtualMachine
  time created: 2009-03-17T10:26:34.605171-04:00

Gold 
  name:         test2
  description:  
  state:        poweredOff
  vm type:      VirtualMachine
  time created: 2009-03-17T13:32:05Z

Silver
  name:         test3
  description:  
  state:        poweredOff
  vm type:      VirtualMachine
  time created: 2009-03-17T13:32:22Z  

Remember!!! That in order to use this script you will need the Perl VI SDK installed on your linux box as well as $home/.visdkrc setup correctly

Here is an example .visdkrc...

VI_SERVER = Virtual Console Server
VI_USERNAME = login
VI_PASSWORD = passwd
VI_PROTOCOL = https 
VI_PORTNUMBER = 443

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Welcome to part 2 of the "HowTo List Virtual Machines using Python and CIM". In this part, I modified the original script so that you can pass the Virtual Machine name as well as run it with out the Virtual Machine name. In the first part of this HowTO I created the listVMsInfo.py script witch just listed all the Virtual Machines. So please enjoy the script and hopefully it will make your life just a bit easier.

python listVMsInfo.py -u "http://esxhost" -a "login passwd" -n "testVM"
VM Name 		 testVM  
Operating System 	 Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 (32-bit)
Host Name 		 None
IP Address 		 None
DataStore Used 		 [Esxtestvol] testVM.vmx
Requested State 	 Not Applicable
Operational Status 	 Enabled
Enabled by Default 	 Enabled
Enabled State 		 Not Applicable
 

Download this script here! listVMsInfo.py-Part-2

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Good Afternoon guys, here I created another Python Script. This script will check your DataStores aka VMFS. I built this script so that it can be used with Nagios and or Zenoss. The purpose of this script is so that you can monitor thresholds on a per DataStore/VMFS. You will need to download and install Pywbem in order to use this script. You can get it here
Example below...

        example below...
        python check_datastore.py -u "http://esxhost" -a "login passwd" --d "Esxtestvol2" -w 60 -c 73 -m GB
        Warning Esxtestvol2 189GB Avail 62% used |avail=189

        python check_datastore.py -u "http://esxhost" -a "login passwd" --d "Esxtestvol2" -w 70 -c 85 -m MB
        OK Esxtestvol2 194558MB Avail 61% used |avail=194558

        python check_datastore.py -u "http://esxhost" -a "login passwd" --d "ISO" -w 10 -c 21 -m KB
        Critical ISO 41867542528KB Avail 21% used |avail=41867542528

        python check_datastore.py -u "http://esxhost" -a "login passwd" --d "Esxtestvol2" -w 70 -c 85
        OK Esxtestvol2 204008849408bytes Avail 61% used |avail=204008849408

        -u, --url       This is the URL you will use to connect to the ESX server, "http://esxhost"
        -a, --auth      This is the Login and Passwd you will use, "login passwd"
        -d, --dstore    This is the DataStore aka VMFS to check, "Esxtestvol2"
        -w, --warn      This is the warning threshold that you will set, 70
        -c, --crit      This is the critical threshold that you will set, 85
        -m, --metric    This is the metric that you will use, "KB", "MB", "GB", The default is Bytes

You can download this script here check_datastore.py

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