Werk #1102: esx_vsphere_counters: no longer raise false alarms because of invalid data from ESX Host

Component Checks & agents
Title esx_vsphere_counters: no longer raise false alarms because of invalid data from ESX Host
Date Aug 28, 2014
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.5i6 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Sometimes the ESX Host does not report valid counter ids.
It may look like

<id>
  <counterId>-2147483645</counterId>
  <instance>84</instance>
</id>

If this happens the <<<esx_vsphere_counters>>> section in the agent is empty. Any checks which relied on this section are now able to handle this scenario by raising a MKCounterWrappedException. Therefore these checks will no longer go UNKNOWN, but stale...

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