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Hi Team,

Iam monitoring the esx hardware health status through vcenter using check_vmware_api plugin. iam getting the unknown issue.
Could you, Please help with this. while other servers are reporting fine.
When i have checked on the vcenter console everything looks OK.

[root@ICHR7S-NAG001 libexec]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_vmware_api.pl -D 172.31.48.100 -H suss4s-esx001.swisslog.net -u XXXX -p XXXXXXXX! -l runtime -s health
CHECK_VMWARE_API.PL UNKNOWN - 1 health issue(s) found in 581 checks:
1) UNKNOWN[system] Status of VMware Rollup Health State: Cannot report on the current health state of the element | Alerts=1;;
[root@ICHR7S-NAG001 libexec]#

[root@ICHR7S-NAG001 libexec]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_vmware_api.pl -D 172.31.48.100 -H susm4s-esx001.swisslog.net -u xxxx -p xxxx! -l runtime -s health
CHECK_VMWARE_API.PL UNKNOWN - 1 health issue(s) found in 582 checks:
1) UNKNOWN[system] Status of VMware Rollup Health State: Cannot report on the current health state of the element | Alerts=1;;

Run the plugin with the -v option to get a verbose output and hopefully it will show you what is causing the Unknown.
Run the example below.