The sfcbd-watchdog service start failure on ESXi : "cimRPmodule: failed to get resource pool name and id by pid"

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Starting sfcbd-watchdog using the "/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog start" command failed.

The following log output appears in /var/log/syslog.log when the command was executed:

YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.155Z sfcbd-init[#########]: Request to start sfcbd-watchdog, pid #########
YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.172Z sfcbd-init[#########]: starting sfcbd
YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.437Z sfcbd-init[#########]: Waiting for sfcb to start up.
YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.446Z sfcbd[#########]: Missing routine GetSystemUUID in vmwSupport.so, using default uuid
YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.446Z sfcbd[#########]: cimRPmodule: get rp info for pid=#########
YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.446Z sfcbd[#########]: cimRPmodule: fetch VSI_NODE_sched_groups_groupName failed Not found
YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.446Z sfcbd[#########]: cimRPmodule: failed to get resource pool name and id by pid #########
YYYY-MM-DDT23:59:27.446Z sfcbd[#########]: Not running in correct resource pool, exiting.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0.x

Cause

This is an rare occurrence. An id is assigned when sfcbd-watchdog starts, but there was an issue with how this id was handled.

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in ESXi 8.0U3.

The workaround is to reboot the ESXi host.