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Did what you told me...but I get same result.

Can you run the following from the commandline replacing IPADDRESS, USERNAME, PASSWORD with your vmware credentials
If you get errors, please post them back to the thread, you should get a list of guest VM's

I receive very unexpected message

[root@localhost vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib]#
Error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.

[root@localhost vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib]#
But that can't be true, because with same credentials I can add and monitor ESXi host.

Is 192.168.250.2 the IP of your host or one of the guests?

192.168.250.2 is my ESXi host. Not a VM.

With the $$ in the password you may need to escape them or put quotes around them
or You may need to do this in the Web UI as well

OK, I execute and saw VM's on ESXi host in terminal.
When I enter my credential for ESXi Host [ P@\$\$w0rd ] in Nagios GUI I can see VM's list.
But when I choose to monitor one VM and finish the wizard in Views ->Service Detail I get this:
ESX3 CRITICAL - Error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.
So finally:
1. When I start Monitoring Wizard and enter my credentials
user: root
Password: P@$$w0rd
click on "Monitor the VMware host" and finish the wizard I can see and monitor ESXi host without problems
2. When I start Monitoring Wizard and enter my credentials
user: root
Password: P@\$\$w0rd
click on "Monitor a guest VM on the VMWare host" I can get a list of VM's, but I get Error of mistaken credentials.
I'm not so familiar with Linux, is there a problem with characters that I use in my passwords, because when I try to monitor LDAP Server I get "Could not bind to the ldap-server". User that I try to bind use "PA$$w0rD" for credential. I build a test lab with DC's and different type of machines and servers in this lab I'm using different instances of word "password"

From here you will need to find the file in /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/components/vmware/ and change the password back to P@$$w0rd

I am going to look into this wizard and see if we cam make some modification to allow for these types of passwords when running the wizard.

Yeap it works now !!! Thank you:)
Can you tell me why these problems occurs or link me article about using special characters in Nagios. I think it's normal and recommended to use complex passwords.
I told you that I got same problems with monitoring LDAP server.
I'm working in a agency with over 30 DC's, 300 servers (half of them VM's), SQL, Oracle DB's, LOTUS mail & etc. We are interested in Nagios.
Thank's again.

I have modified the wizard to work correctly with $$ in password, you can install in through Admin -> Manage Config Wizards.