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Adding cluster for monitoring in Unified Manager fails with "Failed in conversion" and NullPointerException errors in the logs

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Applies to

  • Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.14
  • Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.16
  • Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.18

Issue

  • Adding a new cluster or collecting on an already-added cluster for monitoring in Unified Manager after upgrading to AIQUM 9.14+ results in an error Failed in conversion.
  • If adding a new cluster, the server_acq.log will contain the errors. If cluster was already added in a previous version, the au.log will contain the errors. There are different ways the Failed in conversion NPE error can manifest, the differentiator being the module where the NPE occurred.
  • The GVServerBuilder.java line 89 is specific to this issue:
    2026-02-04 17:39:28,279 ERROR [common-pool-70] c.o.s.a.d.n.b.r.g.n.GClusterBuilder (GClusterBuilder.java:251) - [netappfoundation] cluster1 - ExecutionException encountered on Builder java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.onaro.sanscreen.acquisition.datasource.netapp_ocie.builders.rest.gmode.netappfoundation.GVServerBuilder.createVServers(GVServerBuilder.java:89) ~[au-datasource-netappfoundation.jar:9.16.0-2025.05.J22]
        at com.onaro.sanscreen.acquisition.datasource.netapp_ocie.builders.rest.gmode.netappfoundation.GVServerBuilder.buildModel(GVServerBuilder.java:66) ~[au-datasource-netappfoundation.jar:9.16.0-2025.05.J22]
        at com.onaro.sanscreen.acquisition.datasource.netapp_ocie.builders.rest.gmode.netappfoundation.GVServerBuilder.buildModel(GVServerBuilder.java:46) ~[au-datasource-netappfoundation.jar:9.16.0-2025.05.J22]
        at com.onaro.sanscreen.acquisition.datasource.netapp_ocie.builders.zapi.cmode.netappfoundation.CallableBuilder.call(CallableBuilder.java:59) ~[au-datasource-netappfoundation.jar:9.16.0-2025.05.J22]
        at com.onaro.sanscreen.acquisition.datasource.netapp_ocie.builders.zapi.cmode.netappfoundation.CallableBuilder.call(CallableBuilder.java:15) ~[au-datasource-netappfoundation.jar:9.16.0-2025.05.J22]
        ... 5 more
    Wrapped by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122) ~[?:?]

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