Access to sensors using IPMI fails with cc=0xd2

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

Hardware status of host isn't reported properly and the following errors are found in syslog.log or hostd.log :

  IpmiIfcSensorGetReading: Sensor Number 0xX, failed send cc = 0xd2

  IpmiIfcFruGetInv: fruDeviceId=0xX, failed send cc=0xcb

  IpmiIfcSdrReadRecordId:record id: X, error 210. Try again...

cc in the log message means Completion Code. It is included IPMI command response from BMC and indicates the status.

  0xcb (203) : Requested Sensor, data, or record not present.
  0xd2 (210) : Command response could not be provided. BMC initialization or initialization agent in progress.

Environment

VMware ESXi

Resolution

 This is likely a BMC issue. Resetting BMC or updating BMC software can be a solution. Please contact the hardware vendor for further assistance.