vmesxi support on nagios or vmware esxi

monitoring python script can be had here:

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/VMware_ESXi_Hardware_with_Nagios_or_Icinga_Monitoring

instructions for installing it in the nagios system can be had here:

http://www.claudiokuenzler.com/nagios-plugins/check_esxi_hardware.php#CommandDefinition

Note: had a problem with minimal system install with setuptools for python environment not being installed.  This occurred on a system built up from a very minimal debian environment (ubuntu 14.10) and may happen other times.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7446187/no-module-named-pkg-resources

to install setuptools

sudo su
wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python

Service definition for icinga command.cfg:

# Check HP Server hardware
define service{
        use generic-service
        host_name vmesxi3
        service_description Hardware
        check_command check_esxi_hardware!root!<password>
}