My ESXi 4 Health Status Monitoring script (itself based on earlier work by William Lam) continues to generate a bit of interest, so I thought it about time I tested it against ESXi 5 – even though I don’t see a place for v5 in my own test lab.

There have been some reports in the comments here that it appeared not to work.  But, since the script is working entirely through ‘official’ interfaces, I was expecting most of it to work perhaps with a few tweaks.

But at least with vCLI v4, everything seems to work just fine!  The script, esx-health.pl, fired off the usual email just as it should:

One thing to note though – vmware have stopped including any hardware monitoring components with the ‘vanilla’ build.  So even basic reporting will require vendor provided CIM modules – I came across this excellent guide on adding LSI modules for monitoring Dell PERC array controllers, for example.