Vcenter 7.0.3 Retrieve IPMI SEL request to host failed - error

[Hellspawn0]

Hello all I have a PowerEdge R650 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4314 CPU @ 2.40GHz  and every time i go to Monitor - Hardware Health i get :

A general system error occurred: Retrieve IPMI SEL request to host failed.

I have vcenter  7.0.3 Build:22837322  with newest updates. I got this on 3 different hosts I also cant read thoes stats :

[Jai Prakash Kumar]

I think it is related to the fact, that somehow the loglevel of the vpxa is set to verbose. I always had to restart vpxa to allow this feature to work again for a short time.

 

Please set the loglevel of vpxa to info and some other loglevels reduced to info, too. Now the hardware sensors can be queried via vcenter webclient for one whole day without the need to reboot vpxa and I hope, that this remains so for the future.

[Hellspawn0]

Tried this : 

/etc/init.d/hostd restart

/etc/init.d/vpxa restart

No luck.

[Kinnison]

Hello,

If I'm not mistaken, you asked the same question a few months ago, I only told you that this type of behavior has already happened to me on several occasions, and it's a topic that has been discussed several times in this forum and elsewhere often without finding a precise answer to explain the circumstance.

There are those who have solved the problem by making sure they have the most recent firmware versions and/or have used the "custom" images released by the manufacturer at the time of installation because they include the correct set of drivers for the systems in use. But then we also turn to the manufacturer of both the systems and the software because the problem may already be known and/or there may be a solution to it.

Then perhaps it would also be the case to know whether before this very recent update the problem persisted or not.

Regards,
Ferdinando

[Kinnison]

Hello,

Situation already seen on more than one occasion and mostly related to the behavior of the vCenter object, I assume you have already tried a manual refresh. I guess, if you consult the GUI level hardware status of your HOSTS running ESXi "those problem" doesn't occur.

Regards,
Ferdinando