esxtop command not found

[YasirBamarni]

Hi,

I have setup vMA and able to run resxtop CLI command, but not able to find esxtop.

Is there anything i need to do to run this command?

thanks

Yasir

[AWo]

"esxtop" does not exist in ESXi.

Read: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsp40u1_i/resmgmt/c_using_the_esxtop_utility.html#1_7_6_22_1

AWo

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[Fateswebb02]

I know this is an old post but I would like to point out that it does exist and the page linked doesn't say it does not exist. The person who posted this thread was not connecting directly to the esx host they were on the cMA machine.

[Borja_Mari]

Hi,

to enable ssh access in esxi 4.0 follow this instructions:

(it works for 4.0 too)

Then you will able to connect to the esxi host and use esxtop.

Remember activating ssh access is a unsupported configuration by vmware.

Regards/Saludos,

Pablo

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[YasirBamarni]

thanks

I dont have problems accessing the box. I can run resxtop with no problems from the console. but when i try to run esxtop i get an error "command not found".

[Borja_Mari]

Hi,

are you really sure to accessing a esxi host? Or maybe you are trying to run esxtop in the vMA virtual machine?

You must be connected using a ssh client to the esxi host (esxi host management network IP that you use with vSphere client) to be able to run esxtop.

If you are connected to the esxi host and you can't run esxtop, sounds like a strange and weird problem.

This are commands to verify you are inside a esxi host:

~ # vmware -v

VMware ESXi 4.0.0 build-219382

~ # which esxtop

/sbin/esxtop

Regards/Saludos,

Pablo

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[YasirBamarni]

Hi,

I am accessing the console of the vMA using vmware vShpere client.

I tried to run your commands;

vmware -v

i get

command not found

which esxtop

i get

/usr/bin/whch: no esxtop in (/usr/kerberos.sbin:usr/kerberos............

thanks

Yasir

[Borja_Mari]

Hi,

as i mentioned before in vMA you won't be able to run esxtop. Running esxtop is only possible inside a esx(i) host.

If ssh access in the esxi host is not enabled, you must activate it following the tutorial i mentioned in mi first post in this discussion. Then you will be able to run esxtop locally in the esxi.

Regards/Saludos,

Pablo

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[YasirBamarni]

thanks Pablo

ssh was enabled by one of our engineers and I can see esxtop now by login in directly to the esxi host.

Regards,

Yasir

[William Lam]

On vMA, esxtop does not exists BUT there is a vCLI's version of that called resxtop which can be used. You'll want to connect to the host you're interested in and it'll give you majority of the metrics you would normally see on the classic ESX Service Console esxtop

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