Hi John,
What version of the vmware probe are you running. Also how many VM's are on that vCenter? The vmware probe can collect a ton of data very fast. When you put the probe on loglevel 3 or 5 it will tell you how many metrics and the poll time to gather it. With a health vCenter and enough CPU and RAM for the vmware probe, I have see it gather 130,000 metrics on average of 52 seconds.
Things to consider.
- Make sure you are on the latest version of the VMware probe
- How many vCenters are configured on that probe?
- How many total VM's per vCenter?
- There are some optimization settings on the vCenter that the VMware Admins can set for the API as well. On the newer versions with a fresh install, these need to be tweaked. They can do some Google Searches to find how to tweak those setting for products hitting the API.
- Ensure you are running the vmware probe on a Hub as you are pulling alot of metrics and the Robot spooler isn't designed to handle that many messages.
- On the VMware probe, make sure you set the MaxMem to 1Gb per 1000 VM's on the vCenter. So in you have 6000 VM's you will need 6Gb of RAM set in the Raw Configure MaxMem setting.
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Customer Success Architect
Broadcom
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-17-2019 12:47 AM
From: John Paolo Santos
Subject: Polling Interval Adjustment on vmware probe & cisco_ucs
Hi,
Thanks for responding but I don't we have the same error messages. The kb that I attached is much more similar. But thank you for that insight though,.
Original Message:
Sent: 07-16-2019 03:46 PM
From: DAVID MICHEL
Subject: Polling Interval Adjustment on vmware probe & cisco_ucs
Implications are a greater time difference between data points and alarm generation.
Perhaps Jay's update in this other thread might provide some useful info:
CA UIM Vmware errors log
https://community.broadcom.com/enterprisesoftware/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=1315&MessageKey=c6752e64-e1f9-43c2-a094-0b348c6ad46a&CommunityKey=170eb4e5-a593-4af2-ad1d-f7655e31513b&tab=digestviewer&ReturnUrl=%2fenterprisesoftware%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-home%2fdigestviewer%3fcommunitykey%3d170eb4e5-a593-4af2-ad1d-f7655e31513b%26tab%3ddigestviewer
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Support Engineer
Broadcom
Original Message:
Sent: 07-15-2019 09:25 PM
From: John Paolo Santos
Subject: Polling Interval Adjustment on vmware probe & cisco_ucs
Hey guys,
Just want to ask if it's safe to re-configure the polling interval of vmware & cisco_ucs probes? We're receiving similar alerts in regards to this KB:
https://ca-broadcom.wolkenservicedesk.com/external/article?articleId=112072
Anyone know what's the possible implications of changing this parameters?
Thanks,
John