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Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available

Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available

Today I was troubleshooting a rather simple problem but took me a while to figure out. An ESXi host (5.0) was showing the warning “Hardware monitoring service on this host is not responding or not available” in the Hardware Status tab. The solution was quite simple, the CIM Server wasn’t running and therefor the data was unavailable. To enable this service go to “Configuration“, select “Security Profile” under Software and click “Properties” next to “Services“. In the new window select…

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