After shuttting down the VM's and manually restarting the host, without Auto Startup of VM's set, then manually starting each VM, I receive hardware status updates via VCSA through the VSphere client or web client. However I've struck another issue, Hardware Update Status does not refresh every 5 minutes and requires a manual refresh. This is similar to the following post: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/259842?start=15&tstart=0 The good thing is, Hardware Status does start to come through via VCSA.
I can recreate the inability to retrieve Hardware Status from host issue via VSphere conencted to VCSA if I auto shutdown the host using a shutdown script using PowerCLI and subsequently fix the issue by manually shutting down VM's and the host as noted in the first paragraph and bringing them back up one by one.
It looks as though the auto-startup/shutdown of VM's somehow prevents VCSA from collecting hardware status data via the CIM service on the host. In this state, even if I manually restart VCSA or the CIM service after the host is up, Hardware Status does not come through.
Anyone else struck a similar issue? We're using SNMP to monitor the host health, but it would be nice to resolve or confirm a bug with VCSA/VSphere/WebClient and Hardware Status updates.
Cheers
Ash
