Today I was troubleshooting a rather simple problem but took me a while to figure out. An ESXi host (5.0) was showing the warning “Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available” in the Hardware Status tab.
The solution was quite simple, the CIM Server wasn’t running and therefor the data was unavailable.
Hi, We currently have 3 VMWare hosts (version 6.5 and 5.5) running on Dell servers, I am trying to look for free tools that I can monitor or get alerts for any hardware issues (hard disk failure or bad memory etc).
To enable this service go to “Configuration“, select “Security Profile” under Software and click “Properties” next to “Services“.
In the new window select the “CIM Server” and hit the “Options” button.
Click the Start button and change the Startup Policy to your desired setup, save this by clicking OK and finally close the “Service Properties” window by clicking OK.
As a final step you will have to reset your sensors. You can do this in the Hardware Status tab. Make sure you reset the sensors for the Sensors and System event log. The service will now collect the information.
Working as a Global Technologist in Product Strategy for Veeam Software with an interest for anything virtual and cloud. Niels is as a VMware Certified Professional (VCP-DCV 4, 5, 6) and a Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA). Niels also gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2018).