Version

Argent Advanced Technology 5. 5.1A-2107-C and Earlier

Date

Friday, 10 Sep 2021

Summary

Argent for VMware VM Snapshot Rule correctly alerted about aged snapshot. However, the product wrongly alerted about event correction.

Technical Background

The issue was caused by coding error.

Example of Trace Log wrongly reported snapshot age is within the 1-hour rule threshold

Thu Sep 02 16:00:29.382 ARGENT_SERVER argent_svc All VM Snapshots On Virtual Machine ‘Example_VM’ Were Created Within Past 1 Hour (Oldest: Snapshot_Name – 05 Aug 2021 15:26:51)

Resolution

Upgrade to Argent AT 5.1A-2110-A or Later.