NRPE-2.12 on VMWare ESX Server 3.5

[Lorand S. D'Caltan]

Everything really.

Upstate, ping, Disk space, load, status of VMs, resource use by each VM, disk space free on each datastore, etc.

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Lorand S. D'Caltan
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iSystems LLC
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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of James Pratt
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:26 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE-2.12 on VMWare ESX Server 3.5

Yes, very messy indeed... :(

Not to be nosy, but what exactly are you trying to monitor via nrpe on esx?  ... There are many ways to skin the same cat in nagios-world, so perhaps if we knew what you were ultimately trying to do, we could suggest other ways to do the same thing? :)

Regards,
jamie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lorand S. D'Caltan
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:05 AM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE-2.12 on VMWare ESX Server 3.5
>
> At this point it's much more about the unending chain of dependencies that I'm
> running into trying to use RPMs
>
> rpm -ivh nagios-nrpe-2.12-2.i586.rpm
> warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libwrap-libs is needed by nagios-nrpe-2.12-2
>         nagios-common is needed by nagios-nrpe-2.12-2
>         rc-scripts is needed by nagios-nrpe-2.12-2
>
> rpm -ivh libwrap-libs-7.6-43.i686.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by libwrap-libs-7.6-43
>         rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by libwrap-libs-7.6-43
>
> rpm -ivh nagios-common-3.0.3-2.i586.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         /bin/id is needed by nagios-common-3.0.3-2
>         /usr/bin/getgid is needed by nagios-common-3.0.3-2
>         rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by nagios-common-3.0.3-2
>
> rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1aa78495
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         beecrypt >= 4.1.2 is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         getconf(GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION) = NPTL is needed by rpm-5.0-
> 0.2.0.el5.rf
>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         libcrypto.so.6 is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         libneon.so.25 is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         librpm-5.0.so is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         librpm-5.0.so(LIBRPM_0) is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         librpmdb-5.0.so is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         librpmdb-5.0.so(LIBRPMDB_0) is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         librpmio-5.0.so is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         librpmio-5.0.so(LIBRPMIO_0) is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         libselinux.so.1 is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         libssl.so.6 is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>         rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by rpm-5.0-0.2.0.el5.rf
>
> You see it gets a little bit irritating after a while. I'd really love to just be able to
> compile the NRPE from source, but then we're back at the original error which I was
> trying to correct.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian A. Seklecki [mailto:lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:05 PM
> To: James Pratt
> Cc: Lorand S. D'Caltan; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE-2.12 on VMWare ESX Server 3.5
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:38 -0400, James Pratt wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi.  have you tried Dag’s RHEL3 rpm’s?  … Personally, I would just use
> > SNMP, as  ESX doesn’t like 3rd party agents/software, and neither does
>
>
> Its just one binary and an RC script -- you can probably safely cross
> build it.
>
> ~BAS
>
> >  vmware support… :\
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > jamie
> >
> >
> >
> > From:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
> > Lorand S. D'Caltan
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:24 PM
> > To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] NRPE-2.12 on VMWare ESX Server 3.5
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I’ve been beating on this for a while now and I can’t get around this
> > particular error in the NRPE configuration stage:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > checking for type of socket size... size_t
> >
> >
> > checking for SSL headers... SSL headers found in /usr/local/ssl/
> >
> >
> > checking for SSL libraries... configure: error: Cannot find ssl
> > libraries
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I’ve installed OpenSSL-0.9.8h and OpenSSL-devel-0.8.9h-1 and neither
> > of them apparently contain the correct libs.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This is ESX, so it’s a very stripped down Linux and I don’t have RPM
> > abilities so I can’t install the libopenssl RPM package.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > Lorand S. D'Caltan
> >
> >
> > Systems Engineer
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> >
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