Follow me with this scenario. You have a bunch of VM's that you added manually to NPM. Later on you decide you want to monitor the ESX hosts, clusters etc that they reside on... so you add them. After the initial poll and gathering of host/guest data all of those VM's managed already in NPM appear with italics. Upon clicking on one of these VM's in italics you are prompted with a "Node Not Managed" message and asked whether or not you would like to monitor this node. Then if you proceed anyway and continue to add the node another message lets you know that the node is already being managed by NPM. Is there a way to sync up what is happening here so that the nodes already managed by NPM do not appear in italics? It would be great if you could get to a node via the Virtualization Summary tree structure.

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Virtual Machines in italics/Already being managed by NPM

shack over 8 years ago

Follow me with this scenario.

You have a bunch of VM's that you added manually to NPM.
Later on you decide you want to monitor the ESX hosts, clusters etc that they reside on... so you add them.
After the initial poll and gathering of host/guest data all of those VM's managed already in NPM appear with italics.
Upon clicking on one of these VM's in italics you are prompted with a "Node Not Managed" message and asked whether or not you would like to monitor this node.
Then if you proceed anyway and continue to add the node another message lets you know that the node is already being managed by NPM.

Is there a way to sync up what is happening here so that the nodes already managed by NPM do not appear in italics? It would be great if you could get to a node via the Virtualization Summary tree structure.

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vispetto over 8 years ago +2

We had a similar issue where we were monitoring the VM's but when you looked at the ESX host is was italicized (as not being monitored). Ultimately the issue was with the mapping of the VM to the ESX host…

0 robert.a over 8 years ago

Same issue here, looks like its also being reported in another thread.
VIM polling appears broken with SAM 6.2 and NPM 11.5
It's also filing to link up nodes that have just been added to the virtual host that's running them.
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0 vispetto over 8 years ago

We had a similar issue where we were monitoring the VM's but when you looked at the ESX host is was italicized (as not being monitored). Ultimately the issue was with the mapping of the VM to the ESX host. What I discovered was a NULL value in the HostID column in the VIM_VirtualMachines table. Once I populated the HostID with the correct data the servers showed under the Host properly.
We also discovered this anomaly occurs if you add the node from the Add Nodes in Settings. If you add the VM from the Host server (when it's italicized) then everything works properly.
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