Friday, 23 August 2013

Unable to view sensor data in ESXi 5.x on DL380 G7

Unable to view sensor data in ESXi 5.x on DL380 G7

I'm running ESXi 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0 on a DL380 G7 and no matter
what I do, I cannot view sensor data. I have installed all of the HP
Offline Bundles (both old and new revisions as suggested by HP).
The Hardware Status tab is blank with an error that says, Hardware
Monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available. I
cannot "update" or "reset-sensor" successfully.
I've tried starting it up manually as recommended by VMware by connecting
to the console of my ESXi host and running /etc/init.d/sfbdc-watchdog and
this fails.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can fix or troubleshoot this
issue? I've tried everything from the VMware KB articles and it's not a
firewall issue. There seems to be a direct correlation to the failure to
start sfbdc-watchdog service as this relates to the cim service that
manages the sensor monitors. But I just get lost in the weeds when I try
to trace it at that level.

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