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Munin plugin: ESXi CPU/memory usage

Munin plugin: ESXi CPU/memory usage

What is Munin? Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and “what just happened to kill our performance?” problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. Munin can be installed on any Linux system (and there is a basic Windows version) and works with the plain old server-agent idea. The reason behind this is that you can create custom scripts…

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Script fails “SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue”

Script fails “SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue”

After upgrading a server to Ubuntu 12.04 (from 10.04) and the vSphere SDK for Perl to the latest version one of my scripts started running into a problem giving me a SOAP request error. After digging into the update logs I found that this problem happened due Net-HTTP being upgraded to 6.05 (from 6.03), after a downgrade to 6.03 the problem was resolved. You can downgrade by running the following command.