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Hi All,

I am using the vmware wizard to add a esxi host. The wizard runs through fine but the services checks dose not seem to work. I keep on getting "Status information null"

I have checked the nagios user name and pw on the esx host and all seems to fine.

What version of ESX are you running and trying to monitor?

esxi 5.1

Can you post the actual command you are running in the command line and the output of it? (Hide sensitive info) For example:

Sorry I am new to nagios and was not aware I had run a command on the command line I was under the impression that the wizard will do it automatically.

I have now run the command


/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_esx3.pl -H ip of the host -f

and receive the following:

Can't locate Nagios/Plugin.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_esx3.pl line 32.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_esx3.pl line 32.

It does show the vmware plugins in the nagios xi gui.

lmiltchev was having you test from the command line to see of the plugin was working and the prereqs were installed.

Your output shows they weren't.

It looks like you didn't run this command from the top of page 2 in the Monitoring VMware with Nagios XI doc

Hi,
I ran the follwing yum install perl-Nagios-Plugin libuuid* perl-XML-LibXML

and here is my output:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install perl-Nagios-Plugin libuuid* perl-XML-LibXML
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
epel/metalink | 17 kB 00:00
* base: mirror01.th.ifl.net
* epel: mirror.affix.me
* extras: mirror01.th.ifl.net
* rpmforge: www.mirrorservice.org
* updates: mirror01.th.ifl.net
base | 3.7 kB 00:00
cr | 3.0 kB 00:00
epel | 4.3 kB 00:00
epel/primary_db | 5.0 MB 00:02
extras | 3.5 kB 00:00
rpmforge | 1.9 kB 00:00
updates | 3.5 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Package libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6_3.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libuuid-devel.x86_64 0:2.17.2-12.7.el6_3 will be installed
---> Package perl-Nagios-Plugin.noarch 0:0.35-2.el6.rf will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Class::Accessor::Fast) for package: perl-Nagios- Plugin-0.35-2.el6.rf.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Math::Calc::Units) for package: perl-Nagios-Plug in-0.35-2.el6.rf.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Config::Tiny) for package: perl-Nagios-Plugin-0. 35-2.el6.rf.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Class::Accessor) for package: perl-Nagios-Plugin -0.35-2.el6.rf.noarch
---> Package perl-XML-LibXML.x86_64 1:1.70-5.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::SAX::Exception) for package: 1:perl-XML-Lib XML-1.70-5.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::SAX::DocumentLocator) for package: 1:perl-X ML-LibXML-1.70-5.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::SAX::Base) for package: 1:perl-XML-LibXML-1 .70-5.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: perl(XML::NamespaceSupport) for package: 1:perl-XML-L ibXML-1.70-5.el6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package perl-Class-Accessor.noarch 0:0.31-6.1.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-Config-Tiny.noarch 0:2.12-7.1.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-Math-Calc-Units.noarch 0:1.07-6.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-XML-NamespaceSupport.noarch 0:1.10-3.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-XML-SAX.noarch 0:0.96-7.el6 will be installed
---> Package perl-XML-SAX-Base.noarch 0:1.04-1.el6.rf will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
libuuid-devel x86_64 2.17.2-12.7.el6_3 updates 82 k
perl-Nagios-Plugin noarch 0.35-2.el6.rf rpmforge 60 k
perl-XML-LibXML x86_64 1:1.70-5.el6 base 364 k
Installing for dependencies:
perl-Class-Accessor noarch 0.31-6.1.el6 base 26 k
perl-Config-Tiny noarch 2.12-7.1.el6 base 23 k
perl-Math-Calc-Units noarch 1.07-6.el6 epel 41 k
perl-XML-NamespaceSupport noarch 1.10-3.el6 base 17 k
perl-XML-SAX noarch 0.96-7.el6 base 78 k
perl-XML-SAX-Base noarch 1.04-1.el6.rf rpmforge 27 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 9 Package(s)

Total size: 718 k
Installed size: 1.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/share/man/man3/XML::SAX::Base.3pm.gz conflicts between attempted ins talls of perl-XML-SAX-0.96-7.el6.noarch and perl-XML-SAX-Base-1.04-1.el6.rf.noar ch
file /usr/share/man/man3/XML::SAX::Exception.3pm.gz conflicts between attempte d installs of perl-XML-SAX-0.96-7.el6.noarch and perl-XML-SAX-Base-1.04-1.el6.rf .noarch

Error Summary
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There seems to be a error whilst installing some of the perl plugins.

Hi All,

I think i am getting there i reinstalled the per moduals and also the sdk.

I am now getting the following error message.


please help i feel so close but yet so far.

Okay, so this means that you are either unable to contact the remote system, or you are not retrieving correct plugin data. Did you make sure to check the permissions of the local plugin to make it executable? Do you get the same error when running from the command line? We generally suggest first checking with the command line as that removes the whole GUI portion of things and is the purest way to check plugins and changes.

I followed the instructions to Download and install 'VMware Infrastructure (VI) Perl Toolkit', available at http://www.vmware.com/download/sdk/. I'm still getting the following error when i run ./check_esx3.pl -h
I've tried downloading/installing all 5.x versions which did not help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as i can't do ESXi host checks.