difference of the CIM bundle from ESXi HP Customized image ISO from the one downloaded in VMware

[antoncmsit]

We are using nagios as monitoring for ESXi

Whenever we get this alert CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20 seconds.

We restart or stop/start the sfcbd-watchdog

But this happens a lot

Most of the time the restart fails and stop start will do the trick and the nagios alert will go away

So I tail the syslog.log and whenever the error appears I see this error

Then I have to do the stop start again of the service and alert is clear again

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcb-ProviderManager[1098360]: SendMsg sending to 1 1098360-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: Error opening socket pair for getProviderContext: Too many open files

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: Failed to set recv timeout (30) for socket -1. Errno = 9

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: Failed to set timeout for local socket (e.g. provider)

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: spGetMsg receiving from -1 1098566-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: rcvMsg receiving from -1 1098566-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: Error getting provider context from provider manager: 9 (1098566)

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcb-ProviderManager[1098360]: SendMsg sending to 1 1098360-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: Failed to set send timeout (30) for socket 11. Errno = 9

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: SendMsg sending to 11 1098566-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:36Z sfcbd[1098566]: spSendMsg sending to 11 1098566-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:43Z sfcbd[1098566]: Error opening socket pair for getProviderContext: Too many open files

2014-09-04T22:59:43Z sfcbd[1098566]: Failed to set recv timeout (30) for socket -1. Errno = 9

2014-09-04T22:59:43Z sfcbd[1098566]: Failed to set timeout for local socket (e.g. provider)

2014-09-04T22:59:43Z sfcbd[1098566]: spGetMsg receiving from -1 1098566-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:43Z sfcbd[1098566]: rcvMsg receiving from -1 1098566-9 Bad file descriptor

2014-09-04T22:59:43Z sfcb-ProviderManager[1098360]: SendMsg sendin

I was planning to to reinstall ESXi using HP customized image since once of the forums I saw says it disappear after using the customized image. And the same error I see in the forum

Does using the latest HP provides its own CIM bundle?

https://communities.vmware.com/message/2130426

I have HP Proliant DL385 G2

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PS- This thread has been moved from Community Feedback & Suggestions to VMWare> ESXi- Forum Moderator

[~sesh]

Using the HP custom ISO for ESX installation will include the hp-smx, hp-Util and other CIM providers for ESXi. This will definitely improve hardware status reporting.