Nagios XI and VMware Monitoring

[Chibs]

Hi fellows,

I am new to this forum so not sure if this has been asked or not. I am evaluating nagiosxi to use as an Infrastructure Monitoring Tool, I have downloaded a Trial Version running with VMware player. I have setup everything using the videos and all seems to work fine, however I do have a problem when attempting to monitor a VMware host or machine I get the following error:

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.

I have installed the above SDK (properly i think) with all permissions (linux) and no errors encountered during the installation and configuration. I am able to monitor Windows Desktop without any issues at all.

Can someone please give me some hints on how to go about sorting this one? Sorry for the long post.

Chibs

[lmiltchev]

Did you follow all of the steps, outlined in this document?

[Chibs]

Yes to the letter. I had a few problems with the perl update modules, but that was sorted after googling. It installed perfectly. Other than that all went fine and I did get an Enjoy after the vmware SDK install.

[slansing]

Can you run the following for sanity's sake?:

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yum install perl-Nagios-Plugin libuuid* perl-XML-LibXML -y

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_esx3.pl | head --lines=1 2&>1

And report the output. Thanks!

[Chibs]

Hi There,

Thanks for the post. I did run the commands and for the first one I get:
Package1:perl-Nagios-Plugin-0.35-2.e16.rf.noarch and
Package1:perl-XML-LibXML-1.70-5.e16.x86_64
Both say already installed and nothing to do.


I do not get any output from this : /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_esx3.pl | head --lines=1 2&>1

Thanks

Chbs

[Alex]

Hi,

I had the same problem today.

You should try to delete the vmware wizard in "manage config wizard" and reinstall it, this fixed the problem for me.

[slansing]

Good tip Alex,

Chibs, if this is an option, let us know how it turns out for you!

[Chibs]

Hi both,

Not at all sure if my earlier post was recieved. But I said I deleted the vmware wizard as advised but cannot re-install it as I do not know how. I went to the Nagios Exchange Site and downloaded and extracted the Vmware wizard but when I try to upload it I get: Wizard installation failed. Uploaded zip file is not a config wizard.

Am I doing the right thing?
Sorry for the bother, but these are teething problems for a newbie.

Cheers
Chibs

[Chibs]

Spoke too soon. Uploaded the whole zip file and seems to work fine. I will now test the Vmware monitoring and report back.

Thanks both.

Chibs

[lmiltchev]

OK, I am going to keep this post open for now - let us know if you run into more issues.