VMware Auth

[rdobbsmacu]

My vmware services are returning CRITICAL - Unable to open auth file "/nagiosxi/etc/components/vmware/auth.txt



I have the service in a manage host group and service group and multiple host are members of theses groups.

[gormank]

Have you looked at the file?
My guess is it isn't readable, its gone, or the uname/passwd are no longer valid in the file.

[tgriep]

If it is gone, you can recreate it in this folder

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/usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/components/vmware/

Then you can add the username and password like the example below.

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username=nagiosadmin
password=nagiosadmin

Save the file, make sure the owner is apache with the group set to nagios so that can read the file.

[rdobbsmacu]

The username and password are correct and the file attributes are set to -rw-r--r-- apache nagios

[tgriep]

When using the -f option for the check_esx3, you need to use the full path to the auth file like below.

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-f /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/components/vmware/auth.txt

Is the checked defined that way?
Can you login as the nagios user to the console and run that check without errors?