vCAC Plugin 6.0.0.29 Fails to show all VirtualMachines

Hello vCO experts,

I've been having some trouble with the vCO plugin for vCAC (version 6.0.0.29) running on vCO 5.5.0. Specifically, when I try to expand the folder of VirtualMachines or run the getManagedVirtualMachines() action, I get a plugin error:

The logs from vCO as they relate to the vCAC plugin show that it might be related to an issue parsing XML from the vCAC server:

2014-09-19 12:50:00.962-0400 [http-bio-142.42.194.85-8281-exec-4] ERROR {} [AbstractResourceElementConfigPersister] Error loading content from resource with id: af0beeb8-9963-42e7-a5c1-46152b6688ea

com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not i (position: START_DOCUMENT seen i... @1:1)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.XppReader.pullNextEvent(XppReader.java:124)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.AbstractPullReader.readRealEvent(AbstractPullReader.java:148)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.AbstractPullReader.readEvent(AbstractPullReader.java:141)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.AbstractPullReader.move(AbstractPullReader.java:118)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.AbstractPullReader.moveDown(AbstractPullReader.java:103)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.XppReader.<init>(XppReader.java:63)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.AbstractXppDriver.createReader(AbstractXppDriver.java:54)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.fromXML(XStream.java:913)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.dynamicops.configuration.VcacConfigPersister.bytes2Config(VcacConfigPersister.java:52)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.dynamicops.configuration.VcacConfigPersister.bytes2Config(VcacConfigPersister.java:21)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.sdk.spring.platform.AbstractResourceElementConfigPersister.getAll(AbstractResourceElementConfigPersister.java:37)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.dynamicops.configuration.XStreamConfigurationServiceImpl.reload(XStreamConfigurationServiceImpl.java:165)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.dynamicops.configuration.XStreamConfigurationServiceImpl.load(XStreamConfigurationServiceImpl.java:141)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.dynamicops.VcacPluginFactory$2.call(VcacPluginFactory.java:227)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.dynamicops.VcacPluginFactory$2.call(VcacPluginFactory.java:224)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.sdk.spring.AbstractSpringPluginFactory.doInCurrent(AbstractSpringPluginFactory.java:193)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.dynamicops.VcacPluginFactory.afterInitialized(VcacPluginFactory.java:224)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.sdk.spring.AbstractSpringPluginAdaptor.createPluginFactory(AbstractSpringPluginAdaptor.java:74)

at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.sdk.spring.AbstractSpringPluginAdaptor.createPluginFactory(AbstractSpringPluginAdaptor.java:30)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.SDKDatasource$1.create(SDKDatasource.java:206)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.PluginFactoryCreator.getPluginFactory(PluginFactoryCreator.java:30)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.SDKDatasourceInvoker.getPluginFactory(SDKDatasourceInvoker.java:181)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.SDKDatasourceInvoker.fetchRelation(SDKDatasourceInvoker.java:62)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.SDKFinder.fetchRelation(SDKFinder.java:324)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.SDKFinder._findRelation(SDKFinder.java:298)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.SDKFinder.findRelation(SDKFinder.java:219)

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.ModulesFactory.findRelation(ModulesFactory.java:520)

at com.vmware.o11n.sdk.EnhancedScriptingSDK.findRelation(EnhancedScriptingSDK.java:99)

at com.vmware.o11n.service.sdk.SdkModuleServiceImpl.findRelation(SdkModuleServiceImpl.java:57)

at com.vmware.o11n.service.factory.VcoFactoryFacade.findRelation(VcoFactoryFacade.java:1602)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at com.vmware.o11n.service.security.AccessRightsInterceptor.invoke(AccessRightsInterceptor.java:92)

at com.vmware.o11n.service.security.AccessRightsInterceptor.invoke(AccessRightsInterceptor.java:83)

at com.vmware.o11n.service.webremoting.VcoDelegatingWebFacade.invokeOperation(VcoDelegatingWebFacade.java:106)

at com.vmware.o11n.integration.initialization.VcoFactoryServiceFacadeProxy.invokeOperation(VcoFactoryServiceFacadeProxy.java:86)

at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor110.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:319)

at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:196)

at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy104.invokeOperation(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor109.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.springframework.remoting.support.RemoteInvocation.invoke(RemoteInvocation.java:205)

at org.springframework.remoting.support.DefaultRemoteInvocationExecutor.invoke(DefaultRemoteInvocationExecutor.java:38)

at org.springframework.remoting.support.RemoteInvocationBasedExporter.invoke(RemoteInvocationBasedExporter.java:78)

at org.springframework.remoting.support.RemoteInvocationBasedExporter.invokeAndCreateResult(RemoteInvocationBasedExporter.java:114)

at org.springframework.remoting.httpinvoker.HttpInvokerServiceExporter.handleRequest(HttpInvokerServiceExporter.java:73)

at org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet.service(HttpRequestHandlerServlet.java:67)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

at net.sf.ehcache.constructs.web.filter.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:95)

at net.sf.ehcache.constructs.web.filter.Filter.doFilter(Filter.java:86)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:222)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:123)

at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:581)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:99)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:680)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:929)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1002)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:585)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:312)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not i (position: START_DOCUMENT seen i... @1:1)

at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.parseProlog(MXParser.java:1519)

at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1395)

at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1093)

at com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.XppReader.pullNextEvent(XppReader.java:109)

... 74 more

2014-09-19 12:50:00.978-0400 [http-bio-142.42.194.85-8281-exec-4] DEBUG {} [VSOFactoryClient] Disconnect from server

2014-09-19 12:50:00.991-0400 [http-bio-142.42.194.85-8281-exec-4] DEBUG {} [SDKDatasource] Trying to remove an SDK session that does not exist

2014-09-19 12:51:04.757-0400 [http-bio-142.42.194.85-8281-exec-3] ERROR {} [VcoDelegatingWebFacade] Server Error...

ch.dunes.model.sdk.SDKFinderException: Unable to execute 'fetchRelation' for type : virtualFolder_VirtualMachines : java.lang.RuntimeException:

at ch.dunes.vso.sdk.SDKFinder.fetchRelation(SDKFinder.java:334)