Nagios Support Forum

Markers,

I meant what happens when you actually try to execute getguests.pl?

It doesn't happen anything. Next line please, says the blinking vertical line, and smiles it's sorroughful smile, while blinking.

I am no expert on Linux, I'll freely admit that without anyone torturing me, or telling me to drink milk or else...

When I check /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/configwizards/vmware/scripts and find the following:

getguests.pl
growguest.pl
Nagiosxi-VMWare.sh

the Owner of all three is nagios.

The groupowner for getguest is nagcmd [501] and owner is nagios [500].
getguest.pl is chkmoddet to 0775

The groupowner for Growguest.pl is users[100] and owner is nagios [500]-
Growguest.pl is chkmoddet to 0755

So when you run ./getguests.pl nothing happens at all?

Thats strange, it should give an error of some kind.

if I run getguests.pls like this: I get this: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Class/MethodMaker/MethodMaker.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

I guess I am forever alone in this matter...

Sorry markers, I'm not ignoring you

What does this return (from the command line):

perl -e "require XML::LibXML"

Sorry folks, it's not your fault.

But, I frigging hate mondays!

Even had the most fantastic sunday, and then boom, back to work. FFS!

Anyway, back to the problem.

I logged on via root, and pasted the following: perl -e "require XML::LibXML"
Nothing, nada happened.

been there done that thrice, but to no avail.

The dream is over what can I say.
I was the Walrus, now I'm John.

It appears that there are some problems when trying to install the SDK on the Nagios xi 2011R1.7 VM.
These steps will help you resolve these issues. I have tested these steps on a freshly deployed 2011R1.7 VM multiple times so I am confident these will fix your problems.

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SDK 4.x
BEFORE you execute the command ./vmware-install.pl do the following at the console/putty session:
yum install perl-XML-LibXML perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Class-MethodMaker
Then execute the command ./vmware-install.pl

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SDK 5.x
BEFORE you execute the command ./vmware-install.pl do the following at the console/putty session:
yum install perl-XML-LibXML perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-Class-MethodMaker
export http_proxy=""
export ftp_proxy=""
Then execute the command ./vmware-install.pl as per the steps
./vmware-install.pl

You then get the message:
CPAN not able to install following Perl modules on the system. These must be
installed manually for use by vSphere CLI:

UUID 0.03 or newer

To force/complete the SDK installation type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make install

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I hope this helps you

I am really looking forward to trying this out!!

I solemnly swear that I will report back as soon as possible with hopefully good news. So help me God!