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Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 2:45 pm**

Hi,
I'm trying to monitor VMware ESXI hosts using nagios check_vmware_esx.pl plugin. I was able to successfully install the VMWare SDK 6.7 version on my nagios server.

[root@NagiosServer vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl --prefix=/opt/vmwarecli EULA_AGREED=yes --default
Creating a new vSphere CLI installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing vSphere CLI 6.7.0 build-8156551 for Linux.

Please wait while copying vSphere CLI files...

The installation of vSphere CLI 6.7.0 build-8156551 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command:
"/opt/vmwarecli/bin/vmware-uninstall-vSphere-CLI.pl".

This installer has successfully installed both vSphere CLI and the vSphere SDK
for Perl.

The following Perl modules were found on the system but may be too old to work
with vSphere CLI:

Crypt::SSLeay 0.72 or newer
XML::NamespaceSupport 1.12 or newer
XML::LibXML::Common 2.0129 or newer
XML::LibXML 2.0129 or newer
LWP 6.26 or newer
LWP::Protocol::https 6.07 or newer
Socket6 0.28 or newer
IO::Socket::INET6 2.72 or newer
Net::HTTP 6.09 or newer

Enjoy,

--the VMware team
when i tried executing the plugin i'm getting the following error:

[nagios@NagiosServer libexec]$ ./check_vmware_esx.pl
Can't locate UUID.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/libwww-perl-5.837/lib /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/SSOConnection.pm line 27.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/SSOConnection.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 25.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VIRuntime.pm line 15.
Compilation failed in require at ./check_vmware_esx.pl line 1237.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./check_vmware_esx.pl line 1237.

Can you please help with the issue.

Thanks!

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:00 pm**

Did you install all of the prerequisites prior to installing the SDK, as described in the article below?

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Some users have been having issues with SDK ver. 6.7. Try installing some perl modules before attempting SDK install:

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cpan -i YAML
yum install libxml2-devel xml2
yum install libuuid-devel
cpan -i UUID
cpan -i XML::LibXML
cpan -i Socket
cpan -i Socket6
cpan -i IO::Socket::INET6
yum install perl-Module-Build

then retry the SDK install.

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cd /tmp/vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/
./vmware-install.pl

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:37 pm**

I've tried installing all the packages listed.I still see the same error message.

[nagios@NagiosServer libexec]$ date
Mon Sep 17 16:36:08 EDT 2018
[nagios@ma209dlvnag002 libexec]$ ./check_vmware_esx.pl
Can't locate UUID.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/perl5/libwww-perl-5.837/lib /usr/lib64/perl5 /home/nagios/perl5/lib/perl5/5.16.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/nagios/perl5/lib/perl5/5.16.3 /home/nagios/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/nagios/perl5/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/SSOConnection.pm line 27.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/SSOConnection.pm line 27.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm line 25.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VIRuntime.pm line 15.
Compilation failed in require at ./check_vmware_esx.pl line 1237.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./check_vmware_esx.pl line 1237.

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:48 pm**

Strange... when you ran:

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cpan -i UUID

did you verify that the UUID module got installed?

Run the following commands and show the output:

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perl -MUUID -le 'print $UUID::VERSION'
cpan -D UUID

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:48 pm**

@vy3734, What is the output of:

cpan -i UUID

I also recommend installing the SDK version 6.5 instead of 6.7. Many users had various compatibility issues with the latest version.

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:31 pm**

I tried installing the packages with nagios user instead of root and it worked for me. However when i manually execute the command from libexec directory, the check is giving out desired output. But nagios GUI is not getting updated with the result from the server.
here's the manual execution output.

[nagios@NagisoServer libexec]$ ./check_vmware_esx.pl -D VcenterHost -H EsxiHost -u 'username' -p 'password' -S cpu -s usage -w 85 -c 90
OK: CPU usage=8.15%|'cpu_usage'=8.15%;85;90;;

but the gui is still showing critical status, with previous output.

Nagios Output.PNG

Tried doing ndo2db restart, nagios restart. Still the same.

Posted: **Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:53 pm**

@vy3734, Please locate the UUID.pm module and show us its permissions.

locate UUID.pm
ls -l /usr/local/lib64/perl5/UUID.pm

Also, I'd like to see permissions of the parent directories as well. In my case:

ls -ld /usr/local/lib64/perl5/

ls -ld /usr/local/lib64/

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