vCenter 5.5 "Quick stats on <hostname> is not up-to-date"

[Phog]

I just did an upgrade from 5.1u1 to 5.5 on an HP DL380 G6.  I did a brand new vCSA 5.5 and added my hosts.  Every host now says "Quick stats on <hostname> is not up-to-date" in the yellow configuration issues box.  It says this same thing whether the host is running 5.1 or 5.5, which leads me to believe it's a vCenter issue?  Has anyone else seen this?

[ksram]

As I suspected earlier at this moment we can set the vCenter to behave the old way (5.0/5.1), That is suppress the waring. This will mask the config issue and event reporting. It is done by configuration changes to vCnter. Following changes to the configuration file (vpxd.cfg) is required and vCenter need to be restarted to changes to be effective.

Little long post. But Thought required.

There two methods to change the advanced settings of vCenter using either Client or Manual Edit of configuration file.

Using Web Client to update the settings.

See Documentation:vSphere 5.5 Documentation Center 

• You can use Advanced Settings to add entries to the vpxd.cfg file, but not to edit or delete them.
  • Prerequisites:  Required privilege: Global.Settings

     Procedure

• Select the Manage tab.
• Select Advanced Settings.
• Click Edit.
• In the Key, type a key: vpxd.quickStats.HostStatsCheck
• In the Value field, type the value for the specified key.: false
• Click Add.
• Click OK.
• Repeat the same above steps to add the key: vpxd.quickStats.ConfigIssues with the value of false

Changes will take effect after a reboot.

For brave there is a manual edit method of configuration file

Please note that we are changing the vCenter configuration file here. Make sure to make a backup of the file before proceeding.

Navigate to the vpxd.cfg file. By default, this is located in:

Windows-based vCenter Server: C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\

vCenter Server Appliance: /etc/vmware-vpx/

Procedure

1. Backup the existing vpxd.cfg file. Do not skip this step.
2. Open the vpxd.cfg file using a text editor (Windows) or VI editor (VCSA). For more information on using VI editor, see   Editing files on an ESX host using vi or nano (1020302).
3. Add the following parameters after /below the <vpxd> tag:
4. 
                <quickStats>
                   <HostStatsCheck>false</HostStatsCheck>
                   <ConfigIssues>false</ConfigIssues>
                </quickStats>
    
5. Save and close the configuration file.
6. Restart the vCenter Server service. For more information, see:
   • Window-based vCenter Server: Stopping, starting, or restarting vCenter services (1003895)
   • vCenter Server Appliance:   Stopping, starting, or restarting vCenter Server Appliance services (2054085)

A Knowledge base article should be available soon.

Thanks

Ram

[ladavyl]

Yes, this solutions works perfectly!

[ksram · Accepted solution]

KB:2061008 (VMware KB: vCenter Server 5.5 displays a yellow warning in the Summary tab of hosts and reports the ...) is made available

Thanks

Ram

[vvv850]

The solution works but it also inhibits other alerts like SSH enabled on hosts or High CPU Usage from what I am seeing.