3705413 - Grey metrics for Metric SSL Server Certificate Expiry metric using Advanced Collection Interval configuration in SAP Solution Manager

• Error message: "Invalid minute field value" appears in the e2emai.0.log file when enabling "Advanced" options in the Collection Interval for the Metric SSL Server Certificate Expiry Data collection.
  
  
  
  
• Metric remains gray and does not collect values.
• Error trace includes: "com.sap.smd.server.exec.strategy.cron.CronField.validate(CronField.java:149)" and "com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.buildAdvancedScheduler".
• we can see the following error in the e2emai.0.log file and the metric remains gray
  
  [Thread[Thread-5,5,main]] Error [MetricConfigurationParser.parseConfiguration] Could not resolve metric group definition 00000000000000000001, entry is skipped.
  [EXCEPTION]
  com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.ScheduleDefinitionException: [MetricConfigurationParser.buildAdvancedScheduler] invalid scheduler definition.
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.buildAdvancedScheduler(AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.java:114)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.MetricConfigurationParser.buildScheduler(MetricConfigurationParser.java:155)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.MetricConfigurationParser.buildMetricGroup(MetricConfigurationParser.java:140)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.MetricConfigurationParser.parseConfiguration(MetricConfigurationParser.java:104)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.MetricConfigurationMgr.loadConfiguration(MetricConfigurationMgr.java:128)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.MAIService.load(MAIService.java:120)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.MAIService.init(MAIService.java:99)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.MAIServiceFactory.getInstance(MAIServiceFactory.java:108)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.MAIServiceFactory.getService(MAIServiceFactory.java:102)
  at com.sap.smd.core.plugin.service.ServiceEntityHandle.getObjectAs(ServiceEntityHandle.java:191)
  at com.sap.smd.core.runtime.broker.application.core.entity.PseudoEntityHandle.getObjectAs(PseudoEntityHandle.java:140)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectProxyImpl._getObjectAs(ObjectProxyImpl.java:627)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectProxyImpl.getObjectAs(ObjectProxyImpl.java:574)
  at com.sap.smd.core.plugin.service.ServiceContextImpl.getService(ServiceContextImpl.java:62)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.MAIServiceFactory.init(MAIServiceFactory.java:60)
  at com.sap.smd.core.plugin.service.ServiceEntityHandle.entityLoad(ServiceEntityHandle.java:114)
  at com.sap.smd.core.runtime.broker.application.api.entity.AbstractEntityHandle.load(AbstractEntityHandle.java:234)
  at com.sap.smd.core.runtime.broker.application.core.entity.PseudoEntityHandle.load(PseudoEntityHandle.java:154)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectProxyImpl.loadInternal(ObjectProxyImpl.java:308)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectReference.loadDependencies(ObjectReference.java:305)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectProxyImpl.loadInternal(ObjectProxyImpl.java:272)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectReference.loadDependencies(ObjectReference.java:305)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectProxyImpl.loadInternal(ObjectProxyImpl.java:272)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectReference.loadDependencies(ObjectReference.java:305)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectProxyImpl.loadInternal(ObjectProxyImpl.java:272)
  at com.sap.smd.om.impl.broker.ObjectProxyImpl.load(ObjectProxyImpl.java:146)
  at com.sap.smd.core.runtime.broker.ApplicationManager.loadState(ApplicationManager.java:468)
  at com.sap.smd.core.runtime.broker.ApplicationManager.reachInitializationStates(ApplicationManager.java:366)
  at com.sap.smd.core.runtime.Runtime.run(Runtime.java:57)
  at com.sap.smd.agent.SMDAgeletsRuntimeContext.runStarterPlugin(SMDAgeletsRuntimeContext.java:110)
  at com.sap.smd.agent.SMDAgeletsRuntimeContext.startApplications(SMDAgeletsRuntimeContext.java:158)
  at com.sap.smd.agent.AgentContext.startApplications(AgentContext.java:573)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
  at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4DynamicSkeleton.dispatch(P4DynamicSkeleton.java:241)
  at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.DispatchImpl._runInternal(DispatchImpl.java:483)
  at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.DispatchImpl._run(DispatchImpl.java:282)
  at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.DispatchImpl.run(DispatchImpl.java:759)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:836)
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid minute field value
  at com.sap.smd.server.exec.strategy.cron.CronField.validate(CronField.java:149)
  at com.sap.smd.server.exec.strategy.cron.CronField.<init>(CronField.java:79)
  at com.sap.smd.server.exec.strategy.cron.CronMinuteField.<init>(CronMinuteField.java:32)
  at com.sap.smd.server.exec.strategy.cron.CronEntry.<init>(CronEntry.java:148)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.computeTimeExpression(AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.java:419)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.buildWeeklyInterval(AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.java:370)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.buildWeeklyScheduler(AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.java:340)
  at com.sap.smd.mai.configuration.parser.AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.buildAdvancedScheduler(AdvancedSchedulerBuilder.java:101)

• SAP Solution Manager 7.2

invalid minute field value, advanced scheduler, collection interval, metric configuration, SSL Server Certificate Expiry, e2emai.0.log, gray metric, data collection error, advanced options, SAP Web Dispatcher 7.1 and higher. , KBA , SV-SMG-MON-ALR-CFG , Alert / Metric Configuration , Problem