VMware Monitoring Wizard Error

[transom324]

Hi,

I can use the VMware Monitoring Wizard (VMMW) to monitor a VM host or a VM guest. But, if I try to use the VMMW to try to monitor a VM guest through a VM host I get this error:

"Error
It appears as though the VMware SDK has not yet been installed on your Nagios XI server. You must install the SDK before you are able to use this wizard."

I enter the FQDN for the VM host, username and password, etc. For monitoring mode I select "monitor a guest VM on the VMware host." I select CPU Usage, Memory, Networking, Input/Output and VM Status. When I click the Guest Selection Tab I get the above error.

[scottwilkerson]

Did you go through all of the steps in this document?
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... -nagios-xi

[transom324]

Scott,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Yes, I followed the steps in the Monitoring VMware article. Should I perform those steps again?

[lmiltchev]

Did you install the SDK prerequisites?
Did you run these two commands?

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export http_proxy=
export ftp_proxy=

Did you install successfully SDK? (Did you see “Enjoy, --the VMware team" at the end of the install)?
Did you run the following commands after you installed the wizard?

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chown nagios.nagcmd /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/configwizards/vmware/scripts/getguests.pl
chmod 775 /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/configwizards/vmware/scripts/getguests.pl

Did you enter the proper IP address of your host?
Can you log into the same host, using the credentials entered in the Step 2 of the wizard?

[transom324]

Holy crap! It works1

I really appreciate your help.