The vmware probe output error with "Invalid property: querySpec.interval Details: null"

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

The VMWare probe keeps throwing the following error in the vmware.log.

Executing single perf query for entity datastore-xxx failed. Invalid property: querySpec.interval Details: null 

 

 

 

Environment

• Applies to all supported environments. 

 

Cause

• The error code following "Invalid property:" comes from the VMWare SDK. 
• "querySpec.interval" means invalid interval specified in query

Resolution

• Adjust the polling interval for the VMWare resource definition in the probe.

• The minimum interval for VMware ESX hosts is 20 seconds, and the VMware Virtual Center is 5 minutes.