Symptoms:
- Cannot create or update a host profile
- Creating or updating a hostprofile fails
- You see the error:
Error extracting indication configuration: (0, 'Socket error: [Errno 97]
Address family not supported by protocol
- CIM services are disabled
- Applying the ESXi 5.0 Patch 2 does not resolve the issue
- In vpxa.log file of the ESXi host, you see entries similar to:
2012-02-03T15:17:01.718Z [FF97FB90 info 'Default' opID=EF4F824E-00002109-89] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-internal-596 --
-- vim.profile.host.profileEngine.HostProfileManager.retrieveProfile: vmodl.fault.SystemError:
--> Result:
--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [
--> (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "com.vmware.profile.Profile.CimXmlIndicationsProfile.ExtractionException",
--> arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) [
--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "ErrArg0",
--> value = "(0, 'Socket error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol')",
--> }
--> ],
--> message = "Error extracting indication configuration:
"(0, 'Socket error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol')"",
--> }
--> ],
--> reason = "",
--> msg = "A general system error occurred: "
--> }
- In the vpxd.log file of vCenter Server, you see entries similar to:
2012-02-03T16:14:40.098+01:00 [03240 info 'Default' opID=EF4F824E-000020DE] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-14862 -- host-991
-- vim.profile.ProfileManager.createProfile: vmodl.fault.SystemError:
--> Result:
--> (vmodl.fault.SystemError) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) [
--> (vmodl.LocalizableMessage) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "com.vmware.profile.Profile.CimXmlIndicationsProfile.ExtractionException",
--> arg = (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) [
--> (vmodl.KeyAnyValue) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> key = "ErrArg0",
--> value = "(0, 'Socket error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol')",
--> }
--> ],
--> message = "Error extracting indication configuration:
"(0, 'Socket error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol')"",
--> }
--> ],
--> reason = "",
--> msg = "A general system error occurred: "
--> }
--> Args:
-->
--> Arg createSpec:
--> (vim.profile.host.HostProfile.HostBasedConfigSpec) {
--> dynamicType = <unset>,
--> name = "<Hostprofile name>",
--> annotation = "",
--> enabled = true,
--> host = 'vim.HostSystem:host-991',
--> useHostProfileEngine = true,
--> }