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OK, after looking again at what slansing posted above and thinking about what lmiltchev was asking me, I experimented and found a working solution. Steps needed if you want to use Nagios XI to monitor the ESX 4.1 ESX host without having to use the local ESX host "root" account. First downl...

I found a possible workaround on another site, have you by chance tried this?: On the Permissions tab, add a user or group of users and give them the 'Virtual Machine Power User' role, but be sure to UNCHECK the 'Propogate to Child Objects" option. This way, the users don't receive access to a...

From the Nagios XI - core configuration manager, service management "Test Check Command" COMMAND: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_esx3.pl -H "161.201.225.29" -f "/usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/components/vmware/cgovms29_prd_COMPANY_com_auth.txt" -l "CPU" OUTPUT: ESX3...

I ran the vmware monitoring wizard and I can't seem to get Nagios XI to monitor a vmware ESX 4.1 host unless I use the root account and password on the ESX host? I tried creating a new account called "v_nagios" on the ESX host using the VMware vSphere Client, but when it tries to monitor a...