DL385 G1 health status somehow incorrect

[daikyu]

hi community

please see attached screenshot, as all of the components are GREEN the overall status in my VC is reported YELLOW (warning) and the Hardware-status Alarm gets triggered ...

whats wrong ?

regards&thanks ,peter

[Troy_Clavell]

restarting the virtual center agent on the host(s) in question will probably fix the false positive

from the service console type:

service vmware-vpxa restart

[daikyu]

that was quick, thanks!

tried that, also readded the host to VC and then directly connected to the ESX to clearify this is a hosts issue. also the host only is reporting the "false positive"

[Troy_Clavell]

did you "reset sensors"? Also, I don't know if it will work or not, but did you try to disable all the alarms on the host(s) and then enable them again?

[Troy_Clavell]

one other thing... do you have the IM agents running on the host(s) in question? If so, you verified there is nothing showing up as degraded?

[daikyu]

yeah, i tried to reset but in a second it shows up false positive again.

i reenabled the alarm, bus as stated above the error shows up on the host alone also.

could be a HP SIM or BIOS related "false positive" ? i dont guess the HP agent wants something an trys to parse tru ... ?

[daikyu]

troy, i think you are absoluteley right the HP SIM indicates a disconnected NIC.

fascinating that it tries to tell me something which doesnt show up in the status window. :smileylaugh:

THANKS, anyhow i will connect this NIC again and see what happens, i am currently not onsite.

now i know a little bit more of how the "health status" feature works.its just some sort of parsing thru the SIM data ? good to know that.

thumbs up, sir!