Hosts have “Needs Attention” status after installing the VMM 2012 R2 UR4

By Tomica Kaniski in Other 0 Comment

For those who installed the Update Rollup 4 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager, you may be facing this somewhat “strange issue” right after the installation – your hosts will have the “Needs Attention” status.

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And now the “strange” part – if you open the host Properties window, and check the Status tab, you’ll may see that everything is green.

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So, what needs the attention then?
The answer is – VMM agent needs the attention, and that’s the cause of this “issue” (you’ll need to run Update Agent action on affected hosts).

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And, finally, status of your hosts should be OK again.

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Hope this helps!

P.S. Read the KB document thoroughly – there is a part which mentions the manual update of System Center Virtual Machine Manager DHCP Server (x64) component. It should be like this:

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