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VMware EXSi4.1.0 duplicat vm entries

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      few days back i have added VMware ESXi 4.1.0 single host on observium and today i am seeing its duplicating VM entries itself you can see proxy0a are duplicate. I have deleted VMware and re-add but now it picked someone else to make it duplicate. find attached screenshot.

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            [OBS-2057] VMware EXSi4.1.0 duplicat vm entries
            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment -

            UPDATE: Observium still adding duplicate VMs after it deleted all duplicates a few days ago.

            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment - UPDATE: Observium still adding duplicate VMs after it deleted all duplicates a few days ago.
            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment -

            I have no idea. I just said "Temporary workaround which may work". Strangely, all the duplicate VMs added as duplicates were deleted a couple of days back. I'm running CE and did not do any code updates. I just let the cron job run and did not stop it to test what I thought might solve the issue temporarily as our network guys were adding new devices daily. My VM count increased a lot but suddenly all duplicates were removed in one random cron job run. Only the actual number of VMs remain. I dont know for sure what is causing this issue. 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 - I have no idea. I just said "Temporary workaround which may work". Strangely, all the duplicate VMs added as duplicates were deleted a couple of days back. I'm running CE and did not do any code updates. I just let the cron job run and did not stop it to test what I thought might solve the issue temporarily as our network guys were adding new devices daily. My VM count increased a lot but suddenly all duplicates were removed in one random cron job run. Only the actual number of VMs remain. I dont know for sure what is causing this issue. 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!

            But if i run manually in future in that case will it create duplicate VMs?

            satish.lx Satish Patel added a comment - But if i run manually in future in that case will it create duplicate VMs?
            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment - - edited

            Temporary workaround which may work is to disable the discovery cron job which runs every 6 hrs and run it manually whenever there is a need to "discover" changes in the network.

            dbinoj Binoj D added a comment - - edited Temporary workaround which may work is to disable the discovery cron job which runs every 6 hrs and run it manually whenever there is a need to "discover" changes in the network.

            This is getting very annoying, Please suggest what should i do? every days VM getting duplicate. I have to fix it ASAP. How should i expedite to someone?

            satish.lx Satish Patel added a comment - This is getting very annoying, Please suggest what should i do? every days VM getting duplicate. I have to fix it ASAP. How should i expedite to someone?

            Addition:

            I have notice even my VMs are running its showing "Powered Off" is that something related to configuration? I am using simple snmp to pull data

            satish.lx Satish Patel added a comment - Addition: I have notice even my VMs are running its showing "Powered Off" is that something related to configuration? I am using simple snmp to pull data

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