Hello,
I upgraded my vCSA from 5.5 to 6.0 last Friday. However, Friday evening I started to get frequent (10-50 minutes apart) alerts for HealthStatusChangedAlarm stating that the vmware-vpostgres status changed from green to gray. I restarted the vCSA twice and it stopped for a while after each reboot, but then occurred most of the weekend. I have checked the storage in use and sda3 is 37% used but most are under 6% when running the df -h command. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Adam
I received an alert and was able to check the vPostGres process within 1 minute of the alert. The process was running when I checked it.
Adam
I am seeing this same alarm triggering after my update to vcenter 6. I can't figure out how to make it stop.
Smidley,
I edited the rule to prevent emailing me when the service went from green to gray to stop the annoyance until I can fix the root cause. It still triggers event log entries, but at least I don't get a billion emails a day about a seemingly false alert.
Adam
Hello,
I have same problem after upgrading from 5.5 to 6, but I'm using vCenter on windows. Approximately every 30 minutes I'm getting message "vmware-vpostgres status changed from green to gray " in events and after 40s
"vmware-vpostgres status changed from gray to green". Everything seems to work normally. Just this messages.
Did you migrate data from your 5.5 installation? I told it to do so in my upgrade, I am just trying to find some commonality. Thanks.
Adam
Yes, I migrated my data from builtin MS SQL Express to vSphere postgres with 5.5 to 6 upgrade process.
I have same problem. Fresh instalation: vsphere 6 + VCSA(tiny)
Hello All, I am attempting to escalate this issue to VMWare support through the Dell support on my servers. I will update the post if there is any resolution.
Adam
I just wanted to comment that we're also seeing the same thing here after an upgrade from vCenter 5.1 Update 2 to vCenter 6.0. Data/configuration was migrated from the previous built-in SQL Express instance to postgres during the upgrade. We have vCenter installed on a Windows (2008 R2) VM running within the same datacenter.
We are experiencing the same issue on a fresh install of 6.0 as well.
Same here with a fresh VCSA 6.0 install, I receive the alarm every ~30min.
Event details:
vmware-vpostgres status changed from green to gray
I received this KB article from support. But I don't see the same effects that are described there.
Did performing those steps resolve the issue?
Adam
So I just heard back from Dell, who heard back from Vmware. According to Dell, Vmware states that this is a known issue and will be resolved by a patch or bugfix that is yet to be released. The alert is informational and non-impacting and there is no ETA on the fix.
Adam
Got the same problem with fresh install vsphere 6.0&vCenter.
Not fix yet?
same problem here.
can´t find the e-mail settings for this notification?
tcpip
Thanks for the update. Disabling an alert is all what's left I guess.
Login to vSphere Web Client > vCenter Inventory Lists > vCenter Servers > your vCenter server > Manage > Alarm Definitions > Search for "Health status changed alarm" > Click the Alarm with the name of "Health status changed alarm" > click Edit > Then I removed the email from the actions page. Hope this helps.
Adam
Also, FYI, the issues is still not resolved and I was told this is a known issue that will be resolved with a patch.
I'm having the same issue on a fresh install.
I guess I'll just have to disable th notification trap on "health status changed alarm"...