Troubleshooting the sensor

This topic describes common problems that occur with the FreeBSD computer system sensor and presents solutions for those problems.

Duplicate FreeBSD guests are created

Problem: When the same guest that has the FreeBSD operating system installed is discovered by the FreeBSD computer system sensor and the VMware ESX computer system sensor, the data is not merged and duplicates are created.
Solution: Install the dmidecode command on the targets where you have the FreeBSD operating system installed. This command is required to successfully merge with data that is discovered by the VMware ESX computer system sensor.