Comments on: Enabling CIM on ESXi

By: Cisco UCS: there is something I am still missing - IT 2.0

Cisco UCS: there is something I am still missing - IT 2.0 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:48:16 +0000

[...] first appeared in ESXi and it’s now available in the standard ESX version). This is an example of this [...]

By: NiTRo

NiTRo — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:54:58 +0000

FYI Misc.CimOemProvidersEnabled begun UserVars.CIMOEMProvidersEnabled with ESX 4.0+

By: Erick Rangel

Erick Rangel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:52:09 +0000

has anyone configured CIM to talk to HP Insight? I installed the HP integrated ESXi 3.5 u4 version. I am unsure after searching where to actually set the community string on the ESXi host. I don’t see anything such as a snmpd.conf?

Thanks!
-Erick

By: robb

robb — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:27:39 +0000

How do you get Nagios to report on criticals and warnings with this script?

I got the plugin working — when I run it from the command line as the nagios user, it outputs problems with the server (I yanked the redundant power).

However, Nagios still shows a green OK and has checked several times…

Thanks!

By: air2

air2 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:34:37 +0000

seems to be a nagios version limitation.

I ran “$USER1$/check_esx_wbem.py https:\/\/your.esx.server.com:5989 [verbose]” on nagios 3.1.2 and the output contained every CIM check.

By: air2

air2 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:44:55 +0000

My nagios status information for this check shows only the first line “20090116 13:09:20 Connection to https://10.10.100.2:5989” and not the 30+ lines showed in “http://img.virtuallifestyle.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/extinfocgi.htm”.

I’m on nagios 2.8, python 2.6.2, pywbem 0.7.

any ideas?

By: Michiel Dijcks

Michiel Dijcks — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:34:04 +0000

Be sure to backslash-escape the slashes in your esx(i) server’s address, for instance:

$USER1$/check_esx_wbem.py https:\/\/your.esx.server.com:5989 [verbose]

By: j.piscaer

j.piscaer — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:28:38 +0000

Ritmo: on the ESXi-side, I haven’t done anything special. On the nagios side, I just loaded the python script:

$USER1$/check_esx_wbem.py https:\/\/10.10.100.2:5989 root $USER2$ $ARG1$

$USER2$ is the password. Please mind the escaping of the slashes!

By: Ritmo2k

Ritmo2k — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:32:32 +0000

Joep,
Can you post your plugin conf for Nagios. I have the python script working fine, but cant get Nagios to execute it w/o returning null as the output?

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:17:22 +0000

nice one Joep! I’ve been putting off looking into the esxi cim stack a bit more, now i don’t have to

Stu