Need help with VmBix installation - VMware Monitoring

[arjandv]

Hello All,

I have been trying to install VMbix on my Zabbix appliance version 3.01. (Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS)
I have installed the .DEB file, didn't and get any errors

I think my major problem is that there is no Binary installed on:
/usr/local/sbin/vmbix.

when i copy the binary manually and try to run it i get the message: /usr/local/vmbix/vmbix.jar jar not found

The manual says you also need the loadable module.
I did the configuration change:

For a server : /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
LoadModulePath=/usr/lib/zabbix/modules
LoadModule=vmbix.so



Can someone give help me with a step by step how to install/configure VmBix?

[arjandv]

Ok I installed: vmbix_2.5.0.151-1_amd64.deb
And now I have a binary in:

/usr/local/sbin/vmbix
Usage:
vmbix {-P|--port} listenPort {-s|--serviceurl} http[s]://serveraddr/sdk {-u|--username} username {-p|--password} password [-f|--pid pidfile]



zabbix_agentd -t vmbix[version]
zabbix_agentd [8492]: Loading VmBix module configuration file /etc/zabbix/vmbix_module.conf
vmbix[version] [s|ZBX_NOTSUPPORTED]


My zabbix server version is 3.0.1

[arjandv]

Hello all,

Still trying to get vmbix to work on my Zabbix appliance:

when I test the loadable module now I get:

zabbix_agentd -t vmbix[version] zabbix_agentd [1436]: Loading VmBix module configuration file /etc/zabbix/vmbix_module.conf
vmbix[version]

No error but also no version is displayed

When I test the vmbix binary i get this:

vmbix -P 12055 -u "vcenter user" -p "vcenter user pw" -s "http://vcenter.domain.local/sdk"

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.dav3860.VmBix.main(VmBix.java:224)
21:27:51.746 [Thread-0] INFO net.dav3860.VmBix - Shutting down
21:27:51.749 [Thread-0] ERROR net.dav3860.VmBix - Error disconnecting: null
21:27:51.749 [Thread-0] INFO net.dav3860.VmBix - Shutted down


I would be verry thankfull if someone could give me a push into the right direction?

[hernan]

Hello all,

Still trying to get vmbix to work on my Zabbix appliance:

when I test the loadable module now I get:

zabbix_agentd -t vmbix[version] zabbix_agentd [1436]: Loading VmBix module configuration file /etc/zabbix/vmbix_module.conf
vmbix[version]

No error but also no version is displayed

When I test the vmbix binary i get this:

vmbix -P 12055 -u "vcenter user" -p "vcenter user pw" -s "http://vcenter.domain.local/sdk"

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.dav3860.VmBix.main(VmBix.java:224)
21:27:51.746 [Thread-0] INFO net.dav3860.VmBix - Shutting down
21:27:51.749 [Thread-0] ERROR net.dav3860.VmBix - Error disconnecting: null
21:27:51.749 [Thread-0] INFO net.dav3860.VmBix - Shutted down


I would be verry thankfull if someone could give me a push into the right direction?

I have the same error on the same environment. Can anybody help us with this??

Thanks in advance.

Hernán.

[arjandv]

Hi Hernán,

Yesterday I've managed to make it work with installing version 2.4 instead of 2.5.

I can now query my vcenter appliance.

regards,

[hernan]

Great !!! You ar rigth. The 2.4 is working perfect!!

Sorry How you added the deamon in Ubuntu? The chkconfig command is not supported on Ubuntu 14.x

Thanks in advance.

Hernán.

[hernan]

Sorry, can you help me with my last question?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.

[arjandv]

like this /usr/local/sbin# update-rc.d ./vmbixd defaults