Have noticed when working with HPE Gen10 ProLiant servers with ESXi they can produce false hardware sensor alerts in vCenter 6.7 and 7.0
- If it has been confirmed that the alerts are not genuine, they can be set to an ignored state in the IPMI hardware monitor
- Note: the sensor numbers will in some case reference more than one sensor – i.e. Setting a falsely alerting sensor to ignored may mask another valid sensor reading
- Find the Sensor number:
esxcli hardware ipmi sdr list 0.2 Memory Device 2 Mem_Stat_C01S03 32.2 Configuration Error sensor-discrete 192 Memory 2020-10-29T14:13:17
- The number needed is the non-zero integer in the first column – e.g. 2, in the above example
- Set those sensor numbers as ignored:
esxcfg-advcfg -s 2 /UserVars/HardwareHealthIgnoredSensors
- Confirm:
esxcfg-advcfg -g /UserVars/HardwareHealthIgnoredSensors
- Clear any existing alerts, Reset the Sensor Event Log and restart the CIM service through vCenter