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

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.

Cheers,
D

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Derek J. Balling
Systems Administrator
Vassar College
124 Raymond Ave
Box 13 - Computer Center 217
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
(845) 437-7231


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