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i ran yum update and php is still dated november 2010!

no, i am not a linux admin. from reading it is some kind of update... is this likely to kill nagiosxi though?

i dont even know what the operating system vendor is, this is an appliance that I have bought from nagios that is getting flagged as being unsecure and needs vulnerabilities fixed. now as nagios supplied this appliance I need it fixing. if i had bought an application then i would be updating the OS ...

Hi - I need to update .php and apache.

php later than 5.2.13
apache later than 5.2.15

this is to plug some security risks raised by a penetration test.

please help. i have a fully paid for version.

spoke to my friend who had this issue with nagios core and he said the underlying problem for him was a DNS issue.. he couldnt expand on it as he didnt fix it though...

Did you read the thread on vm forums? goes into the check_esx3.pl and why it is not optimised for the latest version of the api... hmm.. so it doesnt work is what I got from all that. Not going to get into monitoring vmware from within vmware.. but it is perfectly viable to want to do so. PM me if y...

ok cancel all that.. got all my esx hosts back monitored and its ground to a halt again.. maybe you should put something in place to just check the vcentre server? or the datacentre?

I have uploaded the check_esx3.pl from the last page of the thread on the vm forum.. seems a lot better..

with the one in the wizard a VMFS check took over 8 seconds.. with the new one it took about 2. Loads of info on thread that goes way over my head..

version i am using attached,.

seems this has already been discussed... http://communities.vmware.com/thread/21 ... 5&tstart=0

just to add some meaningful notes... i added my esx hosts to be checked and all hell broke loose... xi web would freeze, plugins would timeout. so i gave it 2gb of ram and 2 vcpus; up from 512mb ram and 1 cpu made no difference - it ate all the resource and still needed more cpu.. the check_esx3.pl ...