Adaptec CIM provider freezes on ESXi 4.1

[base2itc]

Dear community,

we have an ESXi 4.1 with the Adaptec CIM provider (the only one available for the 2405 unified controller), using the updated drivers for this controller.

It works basically, but when we poll the provider using remote-arcconf repeatedly (every 30 mins at the moment), the CIM provider stops responding. It will refuse to reply until we stop the polling for a day or two and come back to life magically, just to freeze when some repeated polls are issued.

Does anyone have experience with this kind of problem? Would there be a work around, maybe killing and restarting the CIM provider process on the ESXi?

Thanks in advantage

with kind regards

Stefan Huebner

[Sreejesh_D]

Hope the following commands will help you in restarting CIM agent.

/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog stop

/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start

Ref: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025757

[base2itc]

Thank you! That cures the symptom for one day or two.

Do you or does anyone else have an idea what causes the Adaptec CIM provider to lock up and how to solve this?

regards