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Monitoring Xen via SNMP – update

In a previous post,
Monitoring Xen via SNMP, I documented a method for monitoring xens from dom0. This article shows a few improvements and bug fixes, and allows for monitoring a 'cloud' of domains.

Monitoring Xen via SNMP

I wanted to monitor disk I/O and CPU usage for xen's without running SNMP on each xen domain. I couldn't find anything out of the box to do this (I'm the first do want to do this? surely there's something?!) - so... here's my own way of doing it. It involved hooking a script in to your dom0's snmp server, and then monitoring whatever tool you like. I have a download at the end of the post for cacti.

This article has been updated: Monitoring Xen via SNMP - update