DEPRECATED VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Perl about check_vmware_esx

[BaldMansMojo]

Hi, reading informations carefully may help. And verifying information too. So before getting panic it's a good idea to have a look at "THE MASTER" i.e. VMware. On https://code.vmware.com/sdks you will see that the complete vSphere Automation SDKs (Perl, .NET and Ruby) are deprecated but non of the other ones. And I'm not using using vSphere Automation SDK for Perl - I'm using the vSphere Perl SDK which is a completely different one. So there is absolutely no reason for getting into panic. It's still supported. RegardsMartin

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On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 03:08 -0800, meni2029 wrote: Hello @BaldMansMojo, all, I have seen that the Perl SDK is not supported anymore by VMware : https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-perl This is tough, as this check_vmware_esx monitoring plugin is really good, covers many aspects of the VMware ESX environment. Very useful actually! Many thanks ! I'm opening this issue to gather you thoughts when will we have issue to monitor new VMware versions as the Perl SDK will not be updated with changes ... are you thinking about porting the code to Python, or other language ... any new or existing alternative you may have in mind ... I did find the following good alternatives, although they may not cover all the checks of check_vmware_esx https://github.com/atc0005/check-vmware (golang | tools, memory, cpu, snapshot, datastore) https://github.com/sdouce/pyvmomi-nagios-plugins (python | freespace, health) https://github.com/sdouce/check_vmware (python | ram, cpu, service, health, status, count_vm, vsan) Any further comment ? Best regards — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. [ { ***@***.***": "http://schema.org", ***@***.***": "EmailMessage", "potentialAction": { ***@***.***": "ViewAction", "target": " #184", "url": "#184", "name": "View Issue" }, "description": "View this Issue on GitHub", "publisher": { ***@***.***": "Organization", "name": "GitHub", "url": "https://github.com" } } ]

[meni2029]

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt response and clarification ! And sorry for the confusion about the SDK used.

Looking into the vSphere Perl SDK, it says it will be deprecated in the 7.0 U2 release, and discontinued after that.
https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/7.0/vsphere-perl

Regards
Nicolas

[nicolasbrechet]

Hi,

VMware vSphere 7 U2 was released 2 days ago: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2021/03/announcing-vsphere-7-update-2-release.html

In https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/7.0/vsphere-perl it does say "Deprecation notice: The vSphere SDK for Perl will be deprecated in the 7.0 U2 release, and discontinued after that."

No reason to panic, of course, however for those of us depending on the vSphere Perl SDK, I do believe it's time to think about an alternative for the future release of vSphere...

[BaldMansMojo]

I'm currently using SDK 6.5 checking VMWare 7.x. Worx. A newer SDK is only needed to check new functions . The SDKs were developed for developing command line tools to access ESX (see samples in SDK distribution) not to build up applications on these SDKs. For this purpose Powershell (even on Linux) is a very good alternative. See for example [https://www.windowspro.de/wolfgang-sommergut/vmware-powercli-ubuntu-installieren]

Programming with Perl SDK is a real nightmare because documentation only refers to Perl Data::Dumper. What you get is a hash containing hashes containing hash references containing arrays.......

In Perl you can either use the REST API or use the Perl Poser Shell wrapper [https:metacpan.org/pod/PowerShell)]