vCenter - Disable CEIP

[PGuibordCharter]

I have been fighting with this for a couple days, trying to find a solid way of disabling CEIP on my vCenter's.  I have a fairly large environment I am working on a desired state config, and this is one of the functions I want to include.

There is a spectacular article written by William Lam, who details how to extract the json payload and update it enabled/disabled.  However, I have been playing with it over the last few days and my google-foo is coming up short, so there may be an 'undocumented feature' in 7.0.3. 

When I run Get-VCenterCEIP, it reports properly, and matches the WebClient.  When I run Set-VCenterCEIP -Disabled, the WebClient shows CEIP is still enabled.  However if I run Get-VCenterCEIP again, it shows it as disabled.

I have tried Chrome, Safari, incognito mode, and the symptoms are persistent.  I hope I'm missing something simple and would appreciate any suggestions on how to get this resolved to where the UI matches the Advanced Settings.

VMware.PowerCLI 12.6.0 build 19610541

$PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major Minor Patch PreReleaseLabel BuildLabel
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7 2 3

Thanks in advance!

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Did you wait sufficiently long enough with the Web Client?
It takes some time before the value is refreshed in the Web Client.
The Get-AdvancedSetting cmdlet immediately returns the actual value.

[PGuibordCharter]

Delay- I'm pretty surprised it takes the UI so long to reflect the actual values.

I did the powercli disable, get-advancedsettings, it shows disabled.  The UI still shows enabled.  I waited nearly an hour for the UI to reflect the actual settings.  This may be a good item to submit to the BU to have the changes read/reflected sooner in the UI.

Thank you for the assistance- GREALY appreciated!

[LucD]

I'm not sure how the delay is related to the VCSA being busy, but in my lab it took only around 1 minute.

But you are right, the Web CLient should reflect the change faster.
Perhaps you should open an SR.