VMware probe v7.15 stops collecting metrics from one of our VMWare instances

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• Unified Infrastructure Management for Mainframe
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We currently have 4 VMWare instances collected by the VMWare probe, but twice now on one instance the metrics stop being collected, we have seen the following message in the log:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Attempting to add relationship that already exists.

 

Environment

• Release: 20.3
• Component: UIM - VMWARE
• This issue may occur in vmware probe version 7.14, 7.14_HF3, and 7.15

Resolution

Download and deploy vmware 7.16-T3

This version resolves the reported issue where vmware QOS data stops being collected: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Attempting to add relationship tht already exists.

• vmware 7.15 replaced with vmware 7.16-T3 to resolve the issue.

Additional Information

After upgrade to vmware 7.15 alarms are not clearing as expected and probe throws errors
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/214233