Cheshire Cat Computing

Hello,
New B to nagios xi and I'm looking for help.

1) I download the Nagous Xi 2009R1.2C as a VM and place it on the virtual infrastructure
2 )Installing the SDK from VMware web
Downloaded the VMware-vSpher-Perl-SDK-4.1.1.0-254719.i386.tar
3) installed the Nagios plugins perl Library
yum install -yq perl-Class-Accessor perl-Config-Tiny perl-Math-Calc-Units perl-Params-Validate
donwload and installed the perl-Nagios-Plugin-0.33.e15
rpm -Uvh perl-Nagios-Plugin-*.rpm

3) download the monitoring wizard
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... rd/details

With the wizzard I configured the ESXi host to monitor, CPU usage for VM Host, Datastore usage for VMHost, Input/Output for VMHost, Memory for VMHost, Networking for VMHoset, Services for VMHost and VM Status for VMHost. Everything works well.

My problem... the wizard also has an option to monitor VMs from the host. When I run the wizard to monitor a guest VM on the VMware host; I click on the Guest Selection tab, I get this error..

"It appears as though the VMware SDK has not yet been installed on your Nagios XI server. You must install the SDK before you are able to use this wizard". I know that the SDK has been installed but the wizard still says that there is no SDK.

I'm trying to use this wizard or any other means (another nicely written wizard) to monitor the VMs by using the host esxi or VCenter.

I’m running ESXi 4.0.0, 244038

You'll need to ask the nagios Xi people about this, I think -- from what you say, it sounds as if the VMware perl toolkit is not being found by the script, possibly because it is looking in the wrong place... but check obvious things like you dont have two versions of Perl installed in parallel (with the toolkit only in one of them) or the toolkit is not installed in a separate place that needs to be explicitly stated.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Stevesh...Thank you very much for the reply and advice. I will check with the Nagiosxi guys and see.

akuma1, have you recieved any advice on this issue or perhaps found a solution i have the same problem when trying to monitor a guest vm using the wizard nagios xi , thanks in advance for any advice

I'll ask too. Did any of you find a resolution to this issue?