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
• wget https://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/2441107-127935/VICommon.pm.diff.zip
• unzip VICommon.pm.diff.zip
• tar -xvzf VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.5.0-2043780.x86_64.tar.gz
• cd vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/lib/VMware/share/VMware
• patch -p 0 < /root/VICommon.pm.diff
• cd /root/vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/
• perl Makefile.PL
• make all
• make install
• https://smeretech.com/vmware-perl-sdk-possible-precedence-issue-with-control-flow-operator-at-usrshareperl5-20vmwarevicommon-pm-line-2147/

check_vmware_esx

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