Is the VMware vSphere collector 4.4 compatible with ESX 5.0

Article Id: 156408

Status: Published

Updated On: 17-07-2012 08:57

Legacy Id: TECH188402

Products:

Security Information Manager

Issue/Introduction:

The collector logs an error when attempting to connect to the ESX Server.

WARN 2012-05-07 11:11:06,133 Collectors.3527.wGroup.[workinggroup0].SensorThread Thread-4391 [Sensor: USADANASINF01] Exception in Sensor thread while reading device. Details:

java.rmi.RemoteException: Exception in WSClient.invoke:; nested exception is:

java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.vmware.vim25.ws.WSClient.invoke(WSClient.java:157)

at com.vmware.vim25.ws.VimStub.readNextEvents(VimStub.java:2315)

at com.vmware.vim25.mo.EventHistoryCollector.readNextEvents(EventHistoryCollector.java:61)

at com.symantec.cas.ucf.sensors.vmware.VMwareSensor.readDevice(VMwareSensor.java:248)

at com.symantec.cas.ucf.collector.SensorJob.pollSensor(SensorJob.java:212)

at com.symantec.cas.ucf.collector.SensorJob.run(SensorJob.java:292)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException

Resolution:

As long as the Symantec Event Collector for VMware vSphere, the vSphere Collector Sensor, and the Universal Collector Framework are LiveUpdated completely, ESX 5.0 is supported.

Support for ESX 5.0 was added in LiveUpdate June 2012.

Applies To

ESX 5.0