When attempting to monitor a VMware Virtual Center (VC), the agent goes into the broken state and no data is collected. Within the VMware agent logs, the following is observed:
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS ECHO <fb8be857-fbcf-4747-973d-295a8570e581/VMwarePerformance/5.6.15.2/VMwarePerformance/VC01-agent> WARN [Quartz[0]-0] com.quest.agent.esx.task.ESXAgentTask - Change events collection - Error during execution: ERROR: Null received for VC Id, cannot be null
java.lang.NullPointerException: Null received for VC Id, cannot be null