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Balaji78
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Host Profile non-compliance error related to CIM Indication Subscription

I have this error against one of my esxi 5.0 server(build 768111) under Host Profile Compliance.

"Found extra CIM-XML Indication Subscription on local system for query SELECT*From CIM_ProcessIndication sent to destination file://........."

I am assuming by the error that more than one subscription is available on this particular host.

Does anyone know which file on the esxi host stores this configuration information?

If my assumption is wrong, then what steps need to be taken to fix this issue, apart from unchecking the setting in host profile.

Thanks.

CB

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PaulDND
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I have the exact same problem on one of my hosts.

Also, what is the setting to uncheck, I only have a few things checked, and none seem related.

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MKguy
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We also had this issue with CIM subscriptions from our HP Systems Insight Manager server messing up the host profile compliance.

You can find the files pertaining these registrations somewhere in /var/lib/sfcb/registration/. In our case, they are in /var/lib/sfcb/registration/repository/root/interop/.

There should be no problem with unchecking the setting in the host profile options, which is what we did.

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PaulDND
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It's unchecked.  Also tried re-attaching host,

Screenshot attached.

Using vCenter 5.1

ESX 5.1

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Kerberos86
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I would like to know if this was resolved. I am seeing exactly the same problems, even when I uncheck the CIM Subscription profile setting

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wismannh
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I have the same problem with vSphere 5.1. Is there a solution?

Regards Hendrik

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Kerberos86
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I found out that the Host Profile error is created because when you enable SNMP on a host, and THEN apply the profile, the VM host THEN generates the CIM info.

The way around this is to create the host profile from a host where SNMP is already enabled (thus filling out the CIM info for you). Or creating a new "temporary" Host Profile from another host with SNMP enabled, and copy + paste into your newly created Host Profile.

It's a really annoying bug since the strings in that profile are pretty standard...it would be nice if enabling SNMP autofilled this option.... but the above fixed it for me.

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hostasaurus
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and.... this dumb crap is still broken in 6.5U1 four years later.  Thanks vmware; another happy customer.