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
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