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All of the IIS process’s show up as the same process name, which makes it really challenging to figure out which of your websites has lost it’s mind.  In order to trace an IIS website or application pool back to a PID, you just need to open a command prompt and run the iisapp utility.

iisapp

Outputs
W3WP.exe PID: 7424 AppPoolId: Site1
W3WP.exe PID: 8096 AppPoolId: JoesSite
W3WP.exe PID: 13080 AppPoolId: Wookielove.com

And now you can just use taskmanager to track resource usage to a site.

ESXi doesn’t include a lot of the management functions that the licensed product carries (see my previous post on doing backups in ESXi) but most of those functions are already installed, just disabled.   Here is how to enable SNMP queries and traps on an ESXi server.

1. Enable ssh on your server
2. I’m assuming you have already licensed your server, we’re going to need to back that out so ssh to the server as root
3. run the following commands

mv /etc/vmware/vmware.lic /etc/vmware/vmware.lic.orig
mv /etc/vmware/license.cfg /etc/vmware/license.cfg.orig
services.sh restart


4. That will temporarily put you back into an eval license, you will be disconnected from your vsphere client while the services restart
5. Now you need access to the ESX remote command line. You can do that by either downloading and installing the appliance or you can install it locally on your machine.
6. Configure SNMP for your environment. -c is the snmp community you want to set for queries and -t is the trap destination

vicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.1.1 -c public -t 192.168.1.2@162/public

7. enable snmp

vicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.1.1 -E

8. Test your new snmp config

vicfg-snmp –server 192.168.1.1 -T

9. and lastly, download the snmp MIBs for your management platform
10. Now move your license keys back

mv /etc/vmware/vmware.lic.orig /etc/vmware/vmware.lic
mv /etc/vmware/license.cfg.orig /etc/vmware/license.cfg
services.sh restart