Exactly , the same and repeating task is "Query" all the time. There is one Query task for one of the 31 ESX hosts all the time. It keeps querying every 1-15 seconds a new ESX hosts constantly without anyone selecting any ESX hosts or even beeing in the vShield Manager interface.
My experience from earlier vShield Manager installations is also that it querys only when you select one ESX in the vShield Manager interface. But those installation vas pre 4.1 U2 ( 4.1 / 4.1 U1 ) , this is first I have done with 4.1 U2 but then again..it is vShield Manager which is querying so it should not be any difference if ESX is 4.1 U1 or U2
It is really annoying and fills up the task/event windows everywhere.
One another thing I noticed now. I searched through the logs (vmkernel/vmkwarning/messages etc ) to see if I could see any evidence of the Query task and the only thing I think is related is /var/log/vmware/esxupdate.log which logs this every 15 min (since we installed vShield Manager )
[2012-01-02 12:36:14] DEBUG: lock: Lock file /var/run/esxupdate.pid created with PID 771
[2012-01-02 12:36:15] INFO: cos: vsish command /usr/sbin/vsish cannot be found
[2012-01-02 12:36:15] INFO: cos: No hardware vendor/model information obtained
[2012-01-02 12:36:15] INFO: vmware.esx: BIOS reports Vendor , Model
[2012-01-02 12:36:15] INFO: esxupdate: --
Command: query
Args: ['query']
Options: {'nodeps': None, 'all': None, 'retry': 5, 'force': None, 'vibview': None, 'nocache': None, 'compliant': None, 'loglevel': 'DEBUG', 'cleancache': None, 'bundles': None, 'nosigcheck': None, 'bundlezips': None, 'olderversion': None, 'proxyurl': None, 'meta': None, 'timeout': 30.0, 'cachesize': None, 'HA': True, 'maintenancemode': None}
[2012-01-02 12:36:15] DEBUG: vmware.esx: VIBs loaded: database 881 metadata 0 pkgdb 0
[2012-01-02 12:36:15] DEBUG: vmware.esx: Final VIB counts: metadata 0 pkgdb 0
[2012-01-02 12:36:15] INFO: esxupdate: All done!
[2012-01-02 12:36:16] DEBUG: lock: Lock file /var/run/esxupdate.pid created with PID 782
[2012-01-02 12:36:16] INFO: cos: vsish command /usr/sbin/vsish cannot be found
[2012-01-02 12:36:16] INFO: cos: No hardware vendor/model information obtained
[2012-01-02 12:36:16] INFO: vmware.esx: BIOS reports Vendor , Model
[2012-01-02 12:36:16] INFO: esxupdate: --
Command: query
Args: ['query']
Options: {'nodeps': None, 'all': None, 'retry': 5, 'force': None, 'vibview': None, 'nocache': None, 'compliant': None, 'loglevel': 'DEBUG', 'cleancache': None, 'bundles': None, 'nosigcheck': None, 'bundlezips': None, 'olderversion': None, 'proxyurl': None, 'meta': None, 'timeout': 30.0, 'cachesize': None, 'HA': True, 'maintenancemode': None}
[2012-01-02 12:36:17] DEBUG: vmware.esx: VIBs loaded: database 881 metadata 0 pkgdb 0
[2012-01-02 12:36:17] DEBUG: vmware.esx: Final VIB counts: metadata 0 pkgdb 0
[2012-01-02 12:36:17] INFO: esxupdate: All done!
/Fatih
