monitoring esx vmfs

[Marc Powell]

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> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Matteo Mancini
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:25 AM
> To: Jason Martin
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring esx vmfs
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> Hi Jason..
> 
> >>If I try to run check_vmfs via nrep it doesn't return all output
> >># ./check_nrpe -H esx01.errevisystem.local  -p 5666 -c check_vmfs
> >>VMFS OK:
> >>Why??...could be a little plugin bug??
> >
> > Is NRPE running it under the same user as you did manually? That
> > is often the cause of differing results from NRPE then normal.
> 
> 
> # su nagios -c "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_vmfs"
> VMFS OK:
> 
> 
> You are right...How can I solve it?? I don't want to run nrpe as root

If I've found the same plugin you did, it's just a perl wrapper for
/usr/sbin/vdf. Can you run /usr/sbin/vdf as the nagios user? If not, it
likely needs root privs to run. You can either allow nagios to call it
via sudo (using visudo to grant permissions and changing the plugin to
call 'sudo /usr/sbin/vdf' _or_ give /usr/sbin/vdf the suid bit to allow
any user to execute it with root permissions (chmod u+s /usr/sbin/vdf).

--
Marc 


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