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Hello Nagios Family!

I'm following the box293_check_vmware manual to configure NagiosXI to monitor our vCenter environment.

I've followed the steps in the document with success until I got stuck on page 10 under at:
vCenter Server Credentials
Type ~/box293_check_vmware.pl --server 192.168.zzz.zzz --check vCenter_Name_Version and press Enter
When I enter the command I get prompted for a password.

I found another forum thread for a similar issue. However, the steps in the thread didn't solve my issue.

Hello!

Did you run this command with the proper information? Did it output any errors at all? That command stores the credentials.
Does the password have any special characters like $ or !? If so, you might try using single quotes around your password instead of double:

ssax, thanks for getting back to me.

Yes, I checked several times that I ran the command correctly. Does matter that I'm using a domain user account (ex. [email protected]) vs. local user account to connect to vCenter?

I'm using an alpha numeric password (no special characters). But I modified the credentials to see if single quotes or double quotes would work anyway. It didn't matter.

You may have to use a local account to login to this but tale a look at page 27 of the document about using the --username and --password arguments and also to check the credentials repository.

*Update* Close Thread Please

A colleague of mine (Ryan Hurley) discovered that the behavior was caused by too many (more than one bad) entries in the credstore.