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  1. Observium
  2. OBS-2056

Same VM added multiple times in VM list

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Major
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    • Community Edition
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    • Hardware: IBM System x3650 M3 -[7945J4A]- x86 [64bit]
      Operating system: VMware ESXi 5.5.0 U1 (build-1623387)

    Description

      I recently noticed that the number of VMs in Observium was increasing. When I pulled up the VMware host's device page, I saw that the same VM is being detected as a new VM every few hours. I'm guessing its doing this at every discovery run every 6 hrs? Is it because Observium tracks VM using some unique ID returned by VMware and VMware sends a new ID each time? Even then, the old instance of the VM should be deleted, right?

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. OBS-2057 VMware EXSi4.1.0 duplicat vm entries

          • Major - Major loss of function.
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            [OBS-2056] Same VM added multiple times in VM list
            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment -

            UPDATE: Observium still adding duplicate VMs.

            Quote from my previous reply to OBSERVIUM-2057: I suspect VMware giving faulty data/unique ID for each VM every time Observium polls for changes. I suspect Observium deleted all duplicates one day as it did not see those IDs for a few days. I could be wrong. If anyone familiar with Observium's workings could shed some light on this, then it would be great!

            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment - UPDATE: Observium still adding duplicate VMs. Quote from my previous reply to OBSERVIUM-2057 : I suspect VMware giving faulty data/unique ID for each VM every time Observium polls for changes. I suspect Observium deleted all duplicates one day as it did not see those IDs for a few days. I could be wrong. If anyone familiar with Observium's workings could shed some light on this, then it would be great!
            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment - - edited

            So, today all duplicate VM entries decided to get removed by themselves.

            Attaching screenshots of logs and VM list:

            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment - - edited So, today all duplicate VM entries decided to get removed by themselves. Attaching screenshots of logs and VM list:

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              sid3windr Tom Laermans
              dbinoj Binoj D
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