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Hi Community,
I'm no longer alble to install VMware Per SDK for VMware host monitoring.
I'm working on a fresh CentOS 8 Stream Virtual Machine.
I used the Quick manual Installation (https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... -Linux.pdf)
Then I downloaded VMware perl SDK (VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-7.0.0-17698549.x86_64.tar.gz)
I followed the guide https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf.

I got stuck at "Additional Steps For RHEL 8+/CentOS Stream and Debian" paragraph because the file "/usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm" does not exist.

Obviously, VMware monitoring wizard says: "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."

Could anyone help me please?

Best regards.

Hey tstsitemi,

Are you sure you have the correct perl version specified in the path? /usr/share/perl5/VMware/VICommon.pm is an example in that document. If you aren't using version 5, the path won't be found.

You should be able to check your perl version by running perl -v on the command line.

Hi Cnorell,
thank you very much for your reply.

Here is "perl -v" output:

This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 3 (v5.26.3) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
(with 58 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2018, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.

The path "/usr/share/perl5/" exists, but no VMware folder is present.

I made a test using Nagios XI OVA template (based on Cento 9 stream) and I had the same problem installing VMware SDK .

Thank you for your assistence.
Best regards!

Have you installed the VMware Perl SDK version for your system architecture (x86_64)?
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Did anybody find the solution?