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My skyline collector was working fine until a couple weeks ago. When i go to log in I get a server certificate thumbprint doesnt match error. I have rebooted machine and still doesnt work. i am attaching a screenshot. Thanks

The Skyline team is pleased to announce new VMware Skyline Collector 3.5 and Advisor Pro releases with VMware Aria Operations for Logs Diagnostic Findings and new proactive Findings. If you have Auto-Upgrade enabled, your Skyline Collector will automatically update.      A summary of the new features is below. For additional details review the Skyline Advisor Pro Release Notes. Log into Skyline Advisor Pro today to see the new enhancements!        New Feature Highlights:      Aria Operations for Logs Diagnostic Findings  Skyline recently added Aria Operations for Logs product support, expanding the list of VMware products Skyline analyzes to keep productive and healthy in your environment. Once you add your Aria Logs endpoints to your Skyline Collector(s), you can view proactive Findings and Recommendations in Skyline Advisor Pro. With this latest release, you can now view Diagnostic Findings in Advisor Pro, based on Aria Operations for Logs queries. Diagnostic Findings alert you to and pinpoint existing issues in your environment based on log data evidence. The Diagnostic Findings complement Proactive Findings, which alert you to potential issues in your environment that have not yet occurred. After you add your Aria Logs endpoints to Skyline, you will notice that the default setting for Diagnostic Findings is disabled. You can enable and/or disable the feature whenever you like. We recommend adding all of your Aria Logs endpoints to keep them safe and productive, and enabling Diagnostic Findings to take advantage of log data analysis. Skyline will prompt you to connect endpoints that are not already connected. Learn more  New Proactive Findings    Several new Proactive Findings have been released, including security vulnerabilities, trending support issues and more. Read more about the new Findings in the blog post.    If you have questions about any of these announcements, please visit the Skyline Community.        Skyline Collectors Below v3.0 EOL: As previously announced, we have begun the End of Life (EOL) process for Skyline Collectors below v3.0. We strongly recommend you upgrade any Collectors below 3.0 to the latest Collector version v3.5, before the October 5, 2023 EOL date, to avoid losing access to Skyline. All of your Collectors must be on v3.0 or above to access Skyline Advisor Pro, which is smarter, easier and 12X faster than Skyline Advisor. Note that customers running Collector v2.1 and below who have not upgraded will no longer see data provided by those Collectors in Skyline Advisor.  As a reminder, VMware supports n-2 versions of the Skyline Collector. Currently versions 3.3 and below are no longer actively supported under General Support. Learn more about upgrading Skyline Collector. 

Hi, Just created myself a simple script to use the 'VMware.Skyline.InsightsApi' PowerShell cmdlet to pull the current findings & affected objects, to create a Jira issue per finding. However got some issues that basically need some new features to fix. Being able to tell if a finding is hidden E.g. vSphere-VCFActivateDRS-KB#81651 (Activate vSphere DRS). We are not licensed for DRS, but everytime I poll for active findings this is being regenerated Being able to tell if a finding has been remdiated E.g. vSphere-NonDefaultports-KB#2039095 (ESXi Host has an open non-default port). This popped up for 1 day and disappeared; there was no way to have my script auto-update the job to close it out Other feature that would be awesome to have (and be able to detect it via the API as well) would be able to tell Skyline to ignore specific VMs for specific findings (as added on in this post - https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Skyline-Community-Discussions/Hiding-individual-VMs-from-Findings-amp-Recommendations/m-p/2906884) Examples vSphere-VMmorethan3snapshots-KB#1025279 (Virtual Machine has more than 3 Snapshots). We have a VM that requires a min of 2 snapshots (1 is for Cisco Hyperflex, so our backup solution can back it up; the 2nd one (and subsequent) is the snapshot used by Citrix for the VDA deployment) vSphere-VMsnapshotover7days-KB#1025279Severity (Virtual Machine has Snapshots older than 7 days) Its the same VM in this one, as the Hyperflex snapshot will always exist its going to be older than 7 days at all times (unless someone stuffs up) Like the findings are good to know, but it would be awesome to tell Skyline to ignore those VMs we are okay with so the issue is created for other VMs (e.g. having it ignore the snapshot issues for our Citrix VDA golden image; but alert us for every other VM).

Skyline said the collector was unhealthy after I upgraded Horizon on connection servers. when I re-add the product it says 'Unsupported product or faulty communication. Unexpected status code error: 421. Anyone seen this?

So not sure whats happening, I am using VM ware for kali linux but I am not able to connect to the wifi, I use my desktop and the only way thats connected to the wifi is through the USB wifi adapter and thats for my pc itself, no ethernet what so ever however I am not able to connect to the wifi in kali linux no matter what, can someone help me?