The image lists various event types for vCenter, including Alarm, Authorization, and Cluster events.

Adding events from vCenter to Operations Manager

I recently ran in to a situation where one of the events in vCenter wasn’t showing up in Operations Manager Doing some research and i found this kb article: 65106 Basically theres a file called eventlist.txt under /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/ on the master node so i logged on to master node via ssh and did vi /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/vmwarevi_adapter3/conf/eventlist.txt Comment out the event that we want to get alerts for and restart the service by running ...

December 4, 2020 · Cosmin Trif
Error stack shows a sync depot failure due to 'integrity.fault.HostPatchInvalidVendorCode'.

Unable to Sync Lifecycle Manager 'integrity.fault.HostPatchInvalidVendorCode'

After upgrading my vCenter Server to the latest vSphere 7.0 Update 1, I was unable to see ESXi 7.0 Update 1 Image. When I attempted to sync the updates I got the error “Download patch definitions task failed while syncing depots. Error: ‘integrity.fault.HostPatchInvalidVendorCode’.” Seeing as the error mentioned the depots, navigate to Menu->Lifecycle Manager and then select the Settings tab and then Patch Setup. ...

October 10, 2020 · Cosmin Trif

vCenter update from the command line

Ive ran recently in to an issue where i couldnt perform an update from the admin UI, in order to get up and running i executed the following from a ssh shell. I was luky enough to find the documentation here /usr/lib/applmgmt/support/scripts/software-packages.py install --url Some of the additional options that could be used software-packages stage --url software-packages install --staged I like to perform the update from the command line because it gives me additional information that i might not be able to see in the UI ...

August 30, 2020 · Cosmin Trif
Login screen for VMware vCenter Server Management with update installation in progress.

vCenter Appliance Update installation is in progress

I recently ran in to an issue where the vCenter server appliance update timed out. Rebooting the vCenter server brought the server back up but i was unable to log in to the administration section due to an Update installation in progress error Doing some research i found that there is a file that holds this information fount at /etc/applmgmt/appliance/software_update_state.conf At this point all i had to do was edit the file using vi ...

August 30, 2020 · Cosmin Trif