Check vmware esx Ubuntu

Vmware Perl SDK

• apt-get install make uuid-dev perl-doc libhttp-date-perl libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl libtime-duration-perl
• wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LZ/LZAP/UUID-0.05.tar.gz
• tar -xvzf UUID-0.05.tar.gz
• cd UUID-0.05/
• perl Makefile.PL
• make
• make install

Patch the Version or Download a patched Version with VICommon.pm.diff

• VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.5.0-1384587.x86_64.tar.gz
• VICommon.pm.diff.zip
• VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.5.0-1384587.x86_64-patched.tar.gz
• apt-get install libclass-methodmaker-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libwww-perl libsoap-lite-perl libxml-libxml-perl
• perl Makefile.PL
• make all
• make install

check_vmware_esx

• git clone https://github.com/BaldMansMojo/check_vmware_esx.git
• cd check_vmware_esx/
• make
• install -m 755
• install -m 755 check_vmware_esx /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/