Can't install prereqs for VMWare SDK (Nagios XI 2012R1.6)

[KiwiBloke]

Hi,

I am unable to install the prerequisites for installing the VMware SDK so I can monitor our ESX 5.1 hosts.

The errors I get when I run "yum install perl-Nagios-Plugin libuuid* perl-XML-LibXML" are:

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

The Nagiosxi i am installing too is the 64Bit OVF file named "nagiosxi-2012r1.5-64.tar" that I downloaded this morning. After configuring the network to use a static IP and changing the hostname I ran the update procedure to update the system to R1.6. This proceeded without any errors.

I have struck this before, but the above was from a complete rebuild from scratch. I have also had issues running "yum install system-config-date". The tool installs ok, but refuses to load with the following errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py", line 73, in <module>
useGuiMode(page)
File "/usr/share/system-config-date/system-config-date.py", line 46, in useGuiMode
import scdMainWindow
File "/usr/share/system-config-date/scdMainWindow.py", line 30, in <module>
import gtk
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
_init()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init
_gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display

In the mean time I will configure the server without monitoring our ESX servers or without correcting timezone or ntp

Cheers,

KB.

[lmiltchev]

Run the following commands in terminal:

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yum clean all
yum erase perl-XML-SAX-Base-1.04-1.el6.rf.noarch
yum install perl-XML-SAX -y
yum install perl-Nagios-Plugin libuuid* perl-XML-LibXML -y

Hope this helps.

[KiwiBloke]

Hi,

That worked a treat thanks. I was able to install the prereqs ok.

however, now I have hit another issue. I have uploaded and extracted VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.1.0-780721.x86_64.tar.gz. to /tmp

I ran "export http_proxy=" and export "ftp_proxy=" but when running ./vmware-install.pl the vmware SDK doesn't detect that the server has access to the internet and suggests I install packages manually.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

C.

[sreinhardt]

Just to verify the export commands did not have quotes when run correct? Also does this machine in fact have internet? If not I believe you can download the files from vmware directly that it needs, and rerun the install without issue.

[KiwiBloke]

Hi,

Correct, the commands were run from the terminal logged in as root without quotations and returned nothing. Then when the vmware install script was run it waits while and complains that thre is no internet.

This machine does have full access to the internet as i have been able to install packages via YUM (the prereqs for example).

I have read online that this seems to be a result of the vmware installer using CPAN instead of YUM, and that you can edit the install script to comment out the exit clause of the installer script to prevent it aborting, however i have not done this as it seems a little risky on a prod machine, and i need to ensure that the vmware sdk is loaded correctly.

It does mention the files it needs, i will see if i can find instructions from vmware on those other bits, but if you have any other suggestions I'm open!

Cheers,

C.

[KiwiBloke]

configuring CPAN (automagic mode) did not help either, nor did commenting out the check for internet/exit.

I think i will try an older version of the vmware sdk.

I did have this working on one of our other nagios servers using the older sdk.

I will see how i get on.

KB.

[KiwiBloke]

vmware in their wisdom don't seem to allow for the download of older versions of the sdk (even though they appear to make them available, there is nothing to download) - frustrating!

hope you have further suggestions

ie how can i install the following via yum manually before running the vmware script
Archive::Zip 1.28 or newer
Class::MethodMaker 2.10 or newer
UUID 0.03 or newer
Data::Dump 1.15 or newer
SOAP::Lite 0.710.08 or newer

KB.

[CGraham]

In my experience CPAN Archive::Zip can be installed with yum install perl-archive-zip

Not sure about managing the versions.....

[abrist]

You can install most of the necessary packages through yum:

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yum install perl-Class-MethodMaker perl-Archive-Zip perl-Data-Dump perl-SOAP-Lite

uuid-perl will have to be downloaded from cpan and compiled: http://search.cpan.org/~lzap/UUID-0.05/UUID.pm

[KiwiBloke]

Hi,

Thanks for the new updates.

I ran yum install perl-Archive-Zip but yum told me i already had the latest, so I am guessing that this component is done and dusted.

I then ran yum install perl-Class-MethodMaker perl-Archive-Zip perl-Data-Dump perl-SOAP-Lite which installed several other missing components.

Now when i run the vmware sdk installer i get a new error (!)

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

Compress::Zlib 2.037 or newer
Compress::Raw::Zlib 2.037 or newer
IO::Compress::Base 2.037 or newer
IO::Compress::Zlib::Constants 2.037 or newer
LWP::Protocol::https 5.805 or newer

Thought this might not be too much of an impact, but when i run the vmware ESX host wizard in Nagios it still complains that the sdk is not installed.

so still no joy at this stage

C.