Tag: Monitor VMware ESXi hardware without root (Nagios)

Download and configure the plugin: https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/*-Virtual-Environments/VMWare/check_esxi_hardware-2Epy/ – Create a new user in ESXi with no access privilege, you need to login to the ESXi directly to do that. – Enable SSH, and add nagios user to root group: # vi /etc/group root:x:0:root,nagios – Check from the command line, if it works ./check_esxi_hardware.py –host https://esxihost:5989 –user…