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Creating a host profile from an ESXi host results in “argument of type NoneType is not iterable” error message.

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Here’s an interesting one – all of a sudden my hosts started showing as “Unknown” on Host Profile Compliance screen. Error message that I was presented with reads as – “Unexpected error checking compliance: argument of type NoneType is not iterable”. Screenshot to complete the picture:

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Trying to create a new host profile from the affected host was not successful either with similar error message:

Creating_a_host_profile_from_an_ESXi_host_results_in_argument_of_type_NoneType_is_not_iterable_error_message_1
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