VMware Infrastructure Health adapter triggers false alerts regarding app health of VMware cloud management plane products (vCenter, VIDM, Aria Operations for Logs).

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• App health is affected alerts are being triggered after upgrading to 8.16 version of Aria Operations. For example: "VIDM app health is affected", "Logs app health is affected", "vCenter app health is affected" alerts.

 

• Application|Availability (PING) metric value for the objects shows as 0 even though the endpoint products are working as expected and the ping connectivity from the collector nodes to the endpoints is successful.

 

• The below errors are seen in the VIH adapter logs:
  

  2024-01-02T06:52:05,118+0000 ERROR [pool-17669-thread-2] (214) com.vmware.adapter3.vmwareinfrahealth.util.HostPingUtil.hostAvailability - Invalid IP address found. Unable to execute ping operation
  2024-01-02T06:57:06,747+0000 INFO  [pool-17672-thread-4] (214) com.vmware.adapter3.vmwareinfrahealth.util.HostPingUtil.hostAvailability - ************* inside EndPointHostPing - hostAvailability ****************
  2024-01-02T06:57:06,747+0000 INFO  [pool-17672-thread-4] (214) com.vmware.adapter3.vmwareinfrahealth.util.HostPingUtil.hostAvailability - [Ping IP] : <Hostname or IP>
  2024-01-02T06:57:06,748+0000 ERROR [pool-17672-thread-4] (214) com.vmware.adapter3.vmwareinfrahealth.util.HostPingUtil.hostAvailability - Invalid IP address found. Unable to execute ping operation
  

  
  

Environment

VMware vRealize Operations 8.16.x

VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1 

Cause

This is a known issue affecting 8.16.x version of Aria Operations.

Resolution

This issue is resolved in VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1 version. Refer: VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1

Additional Information

For Upgrade, Backup and Restore, refer : https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations/8-17-1/getting-started-with-vmware-aria-operations-8-17-1/upgrade-backup-and-restore.html