Somewhere inbetween A00 and A02 we've lost the RAID CIM provider. The biggest drawback is that RAID failures are no longer reported to our SNMP-based monitoring system. When going to the Host - Monitor - Hardware - Storage webpage of the respective server the only information is this warning: 'The Small Footprint CIM Broker Daemon (SFCBD) is running, but no data has been reported'. This happens on a range of different Dell machines ranging from the x10 to the x40 series.
'software vib list' shows that all drivers are in place, e.g. on this x10 machine with an LSI 1068E:
| lsiprovider | 500.04.V0.73-0002 | LSI | VMwareAccepted | 2019-11-25 |
So - how can we get the cim provider working again? As a workaround, can we at least retrieve individual drive information, i.e. drive present, missing or rebuilding, through SNMP? While the web interface no longer shows RAID info, at least the individual disks are listed
A quick test with 6.7 showed that unfortunately the situation does not improve.