Not able to exclude nodes alarming in VMware probe

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Receiving the alarm from VMware probe on excluded nodes. After upgrading UIM from 20.4 to 23.4.3

This used to work in an earlier version (20.4) but the configuration seems to disappear across an upgrade. Added the value "filter_out_vms_with_vm_name_matching_regex:   Yes "as below KB.

Raw configure for VMware probe value set according to How to exclude specific VMs from vmware probe discovery

Environment

Release: DX UIM 23.4.3 

Component: VMware probe version  7.23

Cause

The key configured/added after the profiles are created.

Resolution

Configure or add the key "filter_out_vms_with_vm_name_matching_regex: Yes " in raw configure then create profiles.

For the existing can create nas ao profile to suppress alarms.