Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring esx vmfs

[Derek J. Balling]

On May 19, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Marc Powell wrote:

If I've found the same plugin you did, it's just a perl wrapper for

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

/usr/sbin/vdf. Can you run /usr/sbin/vdf as the nagios user? If not, it 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).

Cheers,
D

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Derek J. Balling
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Do it with sudo or else every time you upgrade your ESX farm, you'll have to re-set that bit on every server, since the upgrade-packages will replace that file with a new one.

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