Error running automation call try-inventory (exit code 2), error for esx_vsphere_vm.running_on

Troubleshooting
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So, I had a deeper look into it. The offending part is the discovered host label:

	'cmk/vsphere_object': 
	{
		'value': 'vm', 
		'plugin_name': 'esx_vsphere_vm.running_on'
	}

The plugin_name contains a non valid character, thats where the ValueError comes from.

I don’t know when this label got added, but it is in a lot of our hosts. I guess it’s a 1.6 legacy thing? I used sed to remove the .running_on in var/check_mk/discovered_host_labels and checkmk is now happy again!