VMWare agents stops collecting data frequently and the virtual machines need to be restarted for the agent to start data collection. (4348962)

VMWare agents stops collecting data frequently and the virtual machines need to be restarted for the agent to start data collection. Below error is seen in the logs.

 WARN    [Quartz[0]-11670] com.quest.agent.esx.task.ESXAgentTask - Change Events - Error during execution: ERROR: VI SDK invoke Login, exception:RemoteException:Exception in WSClient.invoke:; nested exception is:
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class com.vmware.vim25.ws.XmlGenDom can not access a member of class java.util.Calendar with modifiers "protected"; nested exception is:
java.rmi.RemoteException: Exception in WSClient.invoke:; nested exception is:
java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class com.vmware.vim25.ws.XmlGenDom can not access a member of class java.util.Calendar with modifiers "protected"

WORKAROUND

The issue is solved in hotfix Foglight for VMware 5.7.3-20170726-0118-4 which you can download from here. Please install that hotfix.

STATUS

Issue is solved in hotfix Foglight for VMware 5.7.3-20170726-0118-4.