Issue when trying to install vmware.install.pl

[Mark Hoogenkamp]

Hello,

I'm advancing a bit with installing and deploying Nagios in my new environment. But i want to monitor my ESX hosts, i've read about installing a file vmware.install.pl.

So i used winscp to get the file on my Nagios server, done. Placed it in the /tmp/ dir. Then logged in the shell with root + my password, cd /tmp/. Then i was heading for the vmware-vpshere-cli-ditrib folder. The i just did what's mentioned, ./vmware.install.pl.

I got the message bash"....." Access Denied..... Quite nice when i was logged on as root....

The instructions that i've been following are mentioned in this topic. The same as mentioned in the nagios exchange topic.

http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/03/vmware ... mware-sdk/

later on i was reading about the fact that i needed to use "su" before installing anything. So i closed the shell, reopened it again, logged on with root + my password. Used "su"but nothing seemed to happen, just another line appeared....

How to proceed with this... Can anybody help me out?

[scottwilkerson]

try changing the permissions to allow execute

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cd /tmp
chmod +x ./vmware.install.pl
./vmware.install.pl

[Mark Hoogenkamp]

It's still not working for me when trying the solution mentioned above.

See info below.

[scottwilkerson]

Hmmm, we need to find the vmware.install.pl file
Try this

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locate vmware.install.pl

Then cd to that directory and then run

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chmod +x ./vmware.install.pl
./vmware.install.pl

[Mark Hoogenkamp]

The vmware.install.pl is located in cd /tmp/vmware-vsphere.cli-ditrib/vmware-install.pl

But all of the commands won't worked, i get bashed all of the time.

Don't know why i installed all of the stuff myself without any issues... The command "su" is also mentioned "-bash: su: command not found"

[scottwilkerson]

Can you give me a screenshot of what you get when you type

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ls /tmp

and then

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ls /tmp/vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib

Thanks.

[Mark Hoogenkamp]

Okay, will do that.