Cheshire Cat Computing

Hi Steve,

i found your Script on Nagiosexchange and i will use it for my ESX Enviroment 3.0
My Monitoring Hostsystem is a Nagios 3.0.2 on Debian Sarge 4.0

I have problems with your short Install Manual

I have take the follow Stepts:

1: Change the Configurationfile snmpd.conf <- no problem
2. copy the vmware-stats script on the ESX in the right directory /etc/snmp
3. copy the check_esx2 file on the Nagios Hostsystem to /libexec

But now what did you meen with change the perl location and statefile?
Must i change this, or can i change this?
The perl location on my Nagios Monitoring host is /usr/lib/perl/5.8
i found my perl file under /usr/bin/perl right?

When i start your ./check_esx2 script i became the follow error:

nagios:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_esx2
Can't locate Net/SNMP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./check_esx2 line 26.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./check_esx2 line 26.

Now i looked in line 26 and found
use Net::SNMP;

What is my problem?

I use SNMP and the follow Components are installed:

libsnmp9 5.2.3-7etch2
libsnmp-base 5.2.3-7etch2
snmp 5.2.3-7

Please help me, i need this monitoring feature
I have download the lasted version of your check:esx2

greetings

Ckey

The check_esx2 script is run on your Nagios server (of course).

The first line in the script specifies the location of perl on your nagios server - this is probably right already, but may need to be changed depending on your system.

Another line near the top defines the location of your Nagios state file, which is found under nagios/logs or similar, depending on your installation. This needs to be set as well.

The Net::SNMP error you get shows that the Perl package Net::SNMP has not been installed on your system, and it is a prerequisite of the check_esx2 script. You will need to install this - in Linux, the package is usually called 'net-snmp-perl' or similar. Otherwise, use 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' and then give the command 'install Net::SNMP', which should download from the internet, compile and install the module and any dependencies.

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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

Hey Steve,

thanks for your help!
I have forgot the two Debian Packages but now it works fine on ESX 2.5
If you have time please write a manual with the requestet packages and a step by step
manual, it will help me and the other peoples

Greetings!

Ckey

Version 3 is currently in development (actually, development has been stalled for many months now, and is being done 99% by the nice people at Groundwork Opensource) and will properly support ESX3.0 and 3.5 (only). This will be radically different (uses the esxtop rather than /proc method). This should have better documentation.

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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

Can you give me link to a project website or something?

Sorry, no project website, this is not being public until we have a working beta that can be published.

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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

Thank you very much for your reply.

We ESX Admins are very happy with the work you guys are doing, keep up the good work.

Can't wait for the final files. Is there anything we can do to help you? I would offer to help testing and reviewing. I am not that big in programming, but I am willing to dive into the subject.

And 99% sounds very promising

Its more that they're doing 99% of the work than that they're 99% complete

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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

This is a good detailed reply!!! If you have time please write a manual with the requestet packages and a step by step
manual, it will help me and the other peoples!!!