wmic binary has not been installed.

[Interrex]

Hi.

When I try to create WMI check's via the wizard I get the following Warning:
"WARNING: wmic binary has not been installed" and refer to the: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... For_XI.pdf

The DOC says:
IMPORTANT
Nagios XI 2012 and newer do not need these steps to be performed, the WMI client is installed by default.

My system.
Nagios XI 5.5.7 running on RHEL7 (VM)
Offline installation.
Windows WMI plugin is latest version - 2.1.1

Error from command line:
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_wmi_plus.pl -H "address" -u -p -m
This plugin requires the linux implementation of wmic eg from zenoss. Once wmic is installed, configure its location by setting the $wmic_command variable in '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_wmi_plus.conf'.

I tried to install wmic rpm, wmi-1.3.14-4.el7.art.x86_64.rpm at the end i got the following conflict.
Transaction check error:
file /bin/winexe from install of wmi-1.3.14-4.el7.art.x86_64 conflicts with file from package nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64
file /bin/wmic from install of wmi-1.3.14-4.el7.art.x86_64 conflicts with file from package nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64

Did a search for wmic on my server.
Found one, but symbolic link to the file /usr/local/bin/wmic that do not exist..

$ ls -l /usr/bin/wmic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Nov 21 2018 /usr/bin/wmic -> /usr/local/bin/wmic
$ ls -ll /usr/local/bin/wmic
ls: cannot access /usr/local/bin/wmic: No such file or directory
$ sudo ls -ll /usr/local/bin/wmic
ls: cannot access /usr/local/bin/wmic: No such file or directory


Any suggestion for a quick fix?
Or should I do a upgrade of the NagiosXi to a newer version ?

[Interrex]

Is it possible to download the nagiosxi-wmic rpm?

[scottwilkerson]

Is it possible to download the nagiosxi-wmic rpm?

The RPM is bundled inside this offline install tarball
https://repo.nagios.com/nagiosxi-offlin ... _64.tar.gz

Extract the tarball and you should be able to see the nagiosxi-wmic rpm

[Interrex]

Hi, reinstall of the nagiosxi-wmic rpm did not solve the problem, no errors under install, no librarys found after install...
Is it possible to only install the "wmic rpm" from another version?

Do you belive a XI version upgrade will solve the problem ?

[Interrex]

Hi, I checked another installation with XI 5.5.6.
Same issue there.

Any suggestion how I can get the wmic / wmi plugin to work?
I’m lost here...

[scottwilkerson]

Can you navigate to the directory with the nagiosxi-wmic rpm and show the output of

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rpm -ql nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

[Interrex]

Can you navigate to the directory with the nagiosxi-wmic rpm and show the output of

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rpm -ql nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

The output is confusing...

root@server:~/rpm $ rpm -ql nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
package nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm is not installed
root@server:~/rpm $ rpm --install nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
warning: nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c62934a0: NOKEY
package nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64 is already installed

Should I try to remove and install it again ?

[scottwilkerson]

lets try

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rpm -qlpv ./nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

[Interrex]

lets try

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rpm -qlpv ./nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Output is:
root@server:/tmp/rpm $ rpm -qlpv ./nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
warning: ./nagiosxi-wmic-5.5.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID c62934a0: NOKEY
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7946110 Nov 14 2018 /usr/bin/winexe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12443029 Nov 14 2018 /usr/bin/wmic

[scottwilkerson]

I would remove that symlink you have

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rm -f /usr/bin/wmic

then uninstall and reinstall the RPM