----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew@andrewklau.com>

> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck@redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org>, "Jiri Moskovcak" <jmoskovc@redhat.com>, "Greg Padgett" <gpadgett@redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 1:35:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Hosted Engine always reports "unknown stale-data"
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Doron Fediuck <dfediuck@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew@andrewklau.com>
> > > To: "users" <users@ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 3, 2014 12:32:45 PM
> > > Subject: [Users] Hosted Engine always reports "unknown stale-data"
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has this same notice when they run:
> > > hosted-engine --vm-status
> > >
> > > The "engine status" will always be "unknown stale-data" even when the VM
> > is
> > > powered on and the engine is online. engine-health will actually report
> > the
> > > correct status.
> > >
> > > eg.
> > >
> > > --== Host 1 status ==--
> > >
> > > Status up-to-date : False
> > > Hostname : 172.16.0.11
> > > Host ID : 1
> > > Engine status : unknown stale-data
> > >
> > > Is it some sort of blocked port causing this or is this by design?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Users@ovirt.org
> > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> > >
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> > it looks like an issue with the time stamp.
> > Which time stamp do you have? How relevant is it?
> >
>
> timestamps seem to be outdated by a lot, interesting error in the broker.log
>
> Thread-24::INFO::2014-02-03
> 22:33:14,801::engine_health::90::engine_health.CpuLoadNoEngine::(action) VM
> not running on this host, status down
> Thread-22::INFO::2014-02-03
> 22:33:14,834::mem_free::53::mem_free.MemFree::(action) memFree: 27382
> Thread-23::ERROR::2014-02-03
> 22:33:14,922::cpu_load_no_engine::156::cpu_load_no_engine.EngineHealth::(update_stat_file)
> Failed to getVmStats: 'pid'
> Thread-23::INFO::2014-02-03
> 22:33:14,923::cpu_load_no_engine::121::cpu_load_no_engine.EngineHealth::(calculate_load)
> System load total=0.0124, engine=0.0000, non-engine=0.0124
>
> I'm assuming that update_stat_file is the metadata file the vm-status is
> getting pulled from?
>

Yep.
Can you please verify the time your host actually has?
ie- we have a known issue with time, since we assume all
hosts are in sync. So if one of your hosts has a time sync
issue, this can explain the problem you see.