wget

[vnuser]

From ESXi, I'm trying to check the status of a web application running in one of the VMs.  It appears that ESXi supports the "wget" command, but it doesn't have a parameter to specify a timeout.  Any ideas on how to make it timeout after a specified number of seconds?  If not, is a better way to do an HTTP check from the command line in ESXi?  Thanks!

[DSTAVERT]

wget is a very simple part of the busybox console and does not have all the features you may be used to. I would use another tool. You might want to consider installing the vMA management appliance. http://vmware.com/go/vma

[vnuser]

Thanks for the info. I have a script in ESXi which needs to check if the VMs and applications are up. For now, wget will suffice even if very basic. It appears that wget on ESXi has a max timeout of 80 seconds. At least that’s what I came up with after a few test runs of wget.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

You can get an updated wget here - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/ESXi_enable_FTP.php.  It may have the option you're looknig for.