Re: [Xen-API] question about check VM host cpu and ram

[Christopher Winslett <christopherwinslett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Olivier,

Use "VM_metrics" to see the the hardware reported metrics.

Use "VM_guest_metrics" to see the VM reported metrics.  Probably need to install the XENSource kernel drivers on the guest OS to get these figures; all mine were null too.

What type of figures are you looking for?

The following RPC calls work for me:

> sid = Session ID
> mid = Metrics ID Associated with VM
>
> VM_metrics.get_record(sid, mid)

It would return a value for memory_actual, VCPUs_number.

In Ruby it would be the following RPC calls:

> require "XMLRPC/Client"
>
> s = XMLRPC::Client.new2("https://localhost")
>
> sid = s.call("session.login_with_password", "uname", "pass")["Value"]
>
> mid = "OpaqueRef:xxxxx"
>
> memory = s.call("VM_metrics.get_record", sid, mid)["Value"]["actual_memory"]

That being said, to get utilization numbers, we use a network monitor system like Nagios.

cw

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Olivier LAMBERT <lambert.olivier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm reading the Xen Management API pdf (Version: API Revision 1.0.6,
Date: 24th July 2008, Stable Release).
It talks about class "VM metrics" (§2.9) and  "VM guest metrics"
(§2.10). But all method call with these classes in RPC send me NULL
response.

Despite it works fine for other classes, like VM, or network etc. All
classes with metrics seems to be not recognized by the API.

Configuration : Dom0 on Debian Lenny, with xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64.

How can I do to gather informations about CPU, ram and network on
domU's with the API ?


Thank you,



Olivier.

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