ESXi hosts which are manually placed into maintenance mode before remediation are automatically removed from maintenance mode

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• An ESXi host which was manually placed in maintenance mode by a user and patched using Update Manager 6.7 automatically comes out of maintenance mode after remediation.
• Within the hostd.log on the ESXi host you observe logs indicating that user vpxuser:com.vmware.vcIntegrity initiated the task

2018-12-12T01:04:27.942Z verbose hostd[2035964] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=42f61ae4-f3-0f2e user=vpxuser:com.vmware.vcIntegrity] AdapterServer: target='vim.HostSystem:ha-host', method='exitMaintenanceMode'
2018-12-12T01:04:27.942Z info hostd[2035964] [Originator@6876 sub=Vimsvc.TaskManager opID=42f61ae4-f3-0f2e user=vpxuser:com.vmware.vcIntegrity] Task Created : haTask-ha-host-vim.HostSystem.exitMaintenanceMode-13

Cause

This issue occurs as Update Manager does not retain information about how the host was placed into maintenance mode.

Resolution

The issue is resolved as of vCenter Server version 6.7 Update 2. Patch downloads are available on the the Download Patches  page.