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

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Issue: 

The VMWare probe keep output 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. 

And the "querySpec.interval" means invalid interval specified in query. 

Resolution

Enlarge the the polling interval for the VMWare resource definition in the probe.

The minimum interval for VMWare ESX is 20 second, and the VMWare Virtual Center is 5 minutes.