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Ping monitored VMs and alert based on thresholds
If the VKernel appliance could also ping the VMs its monitoring that would add a very large boost to the power of the product - it's nearly impossible to tell when a VM loses network connectivity due to guest related issues (IPsec, ejected NIC, etc.). Since the appliance has full visibility to the virtual environment, other products that monitor pings based on user input of IP ranges would be made irrelevant.
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Hi, Chris,
Interesting idea - I wouldn't want to be pinging all VMs, but I could see using it in combination with existing metrics. This is helpful input since we're looking at enhancing what we do around network.Comment -
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Even if it just pinged them once every 1 or 2 minutes that would help. I run a very large development environment with several hundred developer VM servers. It's surprisingly frequent where a ticket arrives with a root cause of "developer ejected / removed NIC" or "developer enabled IPsec accidently" or some other goofiness. :)
This would eliminate my need for a product that does a similar task of pinging (not going to throw out names). I am currently set to ping every 60 seconds with alerts on 5 sequential failures. Less tools = good.
The VKernel product already provides all the VM performance data I could hope for, making WMI/SNMP type gathering irrelevant (at least for me). The ping is the last frontier. :)
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I'm curious whether anyone else on the forum has thoughts on this?
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