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Friday 2 August 2013

check_esx3/check_vmware_api error "SOAP request error - possibly a protocol issue"


There's a problem in the Perl module Net::HTTP versions 6.05 and 6.06 (at least up to the date of writing this post) that drops this error when running check_esx/check_vmware_api, no matter which version of  VMWare API is being used.

The solution is based on downgrading Net::HTTP to its version 6.03. In order to check the installed module version (and thus determining that the problem matches the previously described), run this command from a shell session:

cpan -D Net::NTTP

... and in order to downgrade it, run this command:

cpan install GAAS/Net-HTTP-6.03.tar.gz

Once done, you could find that, though the error message has changed, you continue getting an error when running the check_esx3/check_vmware_api. That's due because Net::HTTP and libwww-perl Perl modules doesn't match after downgrading the first one, so you have to downgrade libwww-perl too in order to solve the problem. To do it run this command from a shell session:

cpan install GAAS/libwww-perl-6.03.tar.gz



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