VMware Perl SDK issue Xi

[MichielvM]

Hi all,

I've done this numerous times, but this time it won't work.
I'm trying to install the VMware Perl SDK in order to monitor VMware.

I tried the following steps:

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yum install perl-XML-SAX-0.96-7.el6.noarch
yum install perl-XML-LibXML perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Class-MethodMaker
export http_proxy=""
export ftp_proxy=""

tar xvzf VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.5.0-1384587.x86_64.tar.gz
cd vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl -default

That should do it.
Now when I go to the Xi config wizard to monitor a vm host, it says:

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Error: It appears as though you have not installed the VMware SDK or ESX plugins on your Nagios XI server. You must have these components properly installed on your system before using this wizard.

Note: this is a nearly fresh install of Nagios Xi 2014R2.7 running on (virtual) Centos 6.6 64 bit.

[hsmith]

I've had to do it twice in certain cases. It may not hurt to restart your nagios service as well.

[MichielvM]

Still the same, restarted Nagios service a couple of times.
Followed the prescribed Nagios installation guide instead of my own notes (slightly different but workes in the past)

Any ideas?

[Box293]

What output do you get when you run this command:

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/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/configwizards/vmware/scripts/getguests.pl

[MichielvM]

What output do you get when you run this command:

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/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/configwizards/vmware/scripts/getguests.pl

Server version unavailable at 'https://localhost:443/sdk/vimService.wsdl' at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 726, <STDIN> line 2.

[jdalrymple]

I tried the following steps:

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yum install perl-XML-SAX-0.96-7.el6.noarch
yum install perl-XML-LibXML perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Class-MethodMaker
export http_proxy=""
export ftp_proxy=""

tar xvzf VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.5.0-1384587.x86_64.tar.gz
cd vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl -default

That should do it.

Since you're not posting entire outputs we have no idea if any of this succeeded or failed. One thing is for sure - I don't see the step:

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yum erase perl-XML-SAX-Base -y

And if you didn't do that, it failed.

[MichielvM]

When I run that:

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Package(s) perl-XML-SAX-Base available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for removal

[hsmith]

I can't tell you for sure if it's related, but is there a reason you're running the version that you are? I've had success with VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-6.0.0-2503617.x86_64.tar.

[MichielvM]

For some reason I retried the procedure recommended by Nagios, and it worked!

[hsmith]

Is there anything else we can do to help you with this one? Like I said originally, sometimes that one takes multiple tries, and I can't explain why.