This bug was initially created as a copy of Bug #2011903 I am copying this bug because: Backport to 4.7.z Description of problem: vSphere Problem Detector may be leaking sessions in vSphere due to client not being logged out between syncs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.10 and master How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Monitor sessions using `govc session.ls` while vsphere-problem-detector is running Actual results: Sessions count increases from 1 to 14 in about 17 minutes. In the output below, I was running build from https://github.com/openshift/vsphere-problem-detector/pull/58 $ while true; do date; govc session.ls | grep vsphere-prob; sleep 5m ; done Thu Oct 7 10:20:26 AM MDT 2021 523e179e-4ead-fd7b-b51a-4f51ad4789a0 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:20 12s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown Thu Oct 7 10:25:26 AM MDT 2021 5237d10f-eb55-be7b-08f3-199397fec29d VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:23 2m8s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 523e179e-4ead-fd7b-b51a-4f51ad4789a0 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:20 5m12s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 528a51b6-142d-9e56-afbd-2e19b384b975 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:24 1m7s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 528f6e0d-da37-ffe0-247a-11f9bff5a2de VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:22 3m10s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52f4a6c1-c603-bdf5-1922-0f3129bc0196 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:21 4m11s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52facf01-0f12-d658-077a-2485d25b602e VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:25 7s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown Thu Oct 7 10:30:26 AM MDT 2021 5212af06-f896-be51-8088-4c881459226f VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:26 4m5s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 522071e9-0ab3-d843-e02e-d44924644ea2 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:28 2m3s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 5237d10f-eb55-be7b-08f3-199397fec29d VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:23 7m9s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 523e179e-4ead-fd7b-b51a-4f51ad4789a0 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:20 10m13s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 528a51b6-142d-9e56-afbd-2e19b384b975 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:24 6m8s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 528f6e0d-da37-ffe0-247a-11f9bff5a2de VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:22 8m10s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52b62109-7618-33f1-12ab-0eccf6c46c77 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:27 3m4s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52d08b6b-9be2-b4de-c7bc-4aae330242ab VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:29 1m2s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52df60e9-7dd4-666f-711c-99d872e0a85a VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:30 2s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52f4a6c1-c603-bdf5-1922-0f3129bc0196 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:21 9m11s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52facf01-0f12-d658-077a-2485d25b602e VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:25 5m7s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown Thu Oct 7 10:35:27 AM MDT 2021 5211905e-4c06-e20e-edc2-6d7debaf3af8 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:31 4m0s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 5212af06-f896-be51-8088-4c881459226f VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:26 9m5s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 522071e9-0ab3-d843-e02e-d44924644ea2 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:28 7m3s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 5234bcde-f49b-f53f-edcf-fcdd0db91de5 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:32 2m59s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 5237d10f-eb55-be7b-08f3-199397fec29d VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:23 12m9s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 523e179e-4ead-fd7b-b51a-4f51ad4789a0 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:20 15m13s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 528a51b6-142d-9e56-afbd-2e19b384b975 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:24 11m8s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 528f6e0d-da37-ffe0-247a-11f9bff5a2de VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:22 13m10s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52b62109-7618-33f1-12ab-0eccf6c46c77 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:27 8m4s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52d08b6b-9be2-b4de-c7bc-4aae330242ab VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:29 6m2s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52db6e7f-d860-dc5a-109c-e2a936be556e VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:34 56s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52df60e9-7dd4-666f-711c-99d872e0a85a VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:30 5m1s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52ebd12c-0084-4ee6-e6b5-339337f7a3d1 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:33 1m57s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52f4a6c1-c603-bdf5-1922-0f3129bc0196 VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:21 14m11s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown 52facf01-0f12-d658-077a-2485d25b602e VSPHERE.LOCAL\rbost 2021-10-07 16:25 10m7s x.x.x.x vsphere-problem-detector/v0.0.0-unknown
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2039341 ***