Host Profile Error

[pamiller21]

I renently upgraded vcenter from 4.1 to 5.1 and one of the upgrades we wanted to get host profiles working. I attempted to get a profile from an existing host and this is the error:

A general system error occurred:

Error: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable.

Any ideas?

[chriswahl]

Are you using the vSphere Web Client 5.1, or the classic vSphere Client (Thick / C# app)?

[pamiller21]

I have used both clients actually

[Shashi112]

Can you edit the hostprofile and check if the configuration details are correct , if any thing is left blank .

Best Regards,

Shashi

[karthickvm]

HI,

I believe it is unable to get properties of some devices / components.

Can you please check the below logs.

ESXi Host: /var/log/hostd.log

vCenter: C:\ProgramData \vmware\infrastructure\Virtualcenter\logs\vpxd.log

[hharold]

We running into the same issue, but only on some ESXi 5.1 hosts.

Did you ever find a cause or solution for this?

Regards,

Harold

[acartus]

Hi 🙂

I had the same problem with the error message, but this was solved as follows:

When I had the problem:

The problem with the error message: "A general system error" - "argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable" does appear on servers that have been updated from 5.0 to 5.1, when the system was not new installed with version 5.1.

Solution:

The problem causes the file "/etc/vmware/snmp.xml". This file looks after the update not right.

My snmp.xml looked after the update from 5.0 to 5.1 as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<config>

<snmpSettings>

<enable>

false

</enable>

<port>

161

</port>

<syscontact>

not set

</syscontact>

<syslocation>

not set

</syslocation>

<communities>

</communities>

<targets>

</targets>

</snmpSettings>

</config>

and the snmp.xml should looks like:

"<config><snmpSettings><enable>false</enable><port>161</port><EnvEventSource>indications</EnvEventSource><loglevel>info</loglevel><communities></communities><targets></targets></snmpSettings></config>" (In one Line without Spaces!)

Login to the host (customize security settings and to start the SSH service) with putty.

Now executes the following command:

"esxcli system snmp get"

This allows you to show the configuration file of the SNMP service. Should an error occur, look at the snmp.xml file ("/etc/vmware/snmp.xml). If this looks like them above, then changes the content of snmp.xml to the following:

"<config><snmpSettings><enable>false</enable><port>161</port><EnvEventSource>indications</EnvEventSource><loglevel>info</loglevel><communities></communities><targets></targets></snmpSettings></config>"

again check the file with the command:

"esxcli system snmp get"

Now the settings should be correct.

Try again a host profiles Check and it should work  .

Excuse my Denglish 🙂

Greetings from Bremen,Germany

Alex