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vum user permissions

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Hello community,

 

after a short research I couldn't find an answer to my question "What permissions does  a created user need to connect to vCenter and patch hosts?".

The thing is I would like to create a special user only for the update manager. For security reseasons he shouldn't have admin permissions. There is allready a predefined role "VMware vSphere Update Manager", which I allready applied to the created user, but when I try to connect to vCenter with this user, I get connection failed message. Does someone know, what permission(s) the user need, to connect from update manager to vCenter?

 

Thanks a lot for some suggestions and help.


host returns esxupdate error codes: 30

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Hi,

I'm trying to patch an ESXi host with my Array Multi-pathing software via VUM on VCSA 6.5

I'm getting this error message

 

The host returns esxupdate error codes: 30. Check the Update Manager log files and esxupdate log files for more details.

 

The Update Manger Error Code KB doesn't list this error

VMware Update Manager/esxupdate error codes (1039063) | VMware KB

 

Has anyone come across it?

I'm having trouble getting Log Browser enable - once done I'll dig into the logs a bit more

 

Any help is appreciated

 

Cheers

Mike

Cannot import ESXi image

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Hi,

I´ve updated my vcenter Appliance to V6.5 and now I´m using also UpdateManager on this new appliance.

So, now I´m trying update hosts also to V6.5, but I cannot import the ESXi Image (VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-OS-Release-4564106-HPE-650.9.6.0.28-Nov2016.iso).

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Re-connecting to Vsphere update Manager

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Hi All

 

we recently update our vCenter from 5.50 update 3b to 5.5.0 update 3d . All went fine except VMware update Manager . we are getting pop up (attached) while scanning or remmiadting any ESXI host . VMware update manager is on the same host as our vCenter ( 2008 R2)

 

can anyone suggest please , below are VUM logs :

 

 

[#1] 2016-05-25T23:29:17.158+02:00 [13300 info 'VcIntegrity'] Session: [sessionId masked]; user <Domain>\<ID>

[#1] 2016-05-25T23:29:17.160+02:00 [13300 info 'VcIntegrity'] Active? true

[#1] 2016-05-25T23:29:17.168+02:00 [11188 info 'VcIntegrity'] Connecting to host <vCenter IP> on port 80 using protocol http

[#1] -->

[#1] 2016-05-25T23:29:17.192+02:00 [11188 info 'VcIntegrity'] Authenticating extension by SSL certificate

[#1] 2016-05-25T23:29:17.197+02:00 [11188 info 'VcIntegrity'] Logged in!

[#1] 2016-05-25T23:29:17.210+02:00 [11188 info 'VcIntegrity'] ImpersonateUser user <Domain>\<ID>

[#1] 2016-05-25T23:29:17.390+02:00 [11188 info 'VcIntegrity'] Impersonated user!

2016-05-25T23:29:24.982+02:00 [13760 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted

2016-05-25T23:29:24.983+02:00 [14688 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted

2016-05-25T23:30:25.425+02:00 [03552 warning 'Ufa'] Empty WSDL root, failing

2016-05-25T23:31:25.449+02:00 [14804 warning 'Ufa'] Empty WSDL root, failing

2016-05-25T23:32:31.017+02:00 [14536 error 'Ufa.HTTPService'] Failed to read request; stream: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x014c1c28, h:2236, <TCP '<vCenter IP>:8084'>, <TCP '10.202.10.182:54739'>>)>, error: class Vmacore::SystemException(An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host)

2016-05-25T23:32:31.018+02:00 [14804 error 'Ufa.HTTPService'] Failed to read request; stream: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x014c1a00, h:2264, <TCP '<vCenter IP>:8084'>, <TCP

2016-05-25T23:32:34.896+02:00 [12668 info 'Default'] [shutdownMgr,88] Ufa shutdown manager stopping... first make sure this thread is enlisted.

2016-05-25T23:32:34.896+02:00 [12668 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted

2016-05-25T23:32:34.896+02:00 [12668 info 'Default'] [shutdownMgr,93] Ufa shutdown manager stopping... Total number of callbacks: 1

2016-05-25T23:32:34.903+02:00 [12668 info 'vmomi.soapStub[1]'] Resetting stub adapter for server <cs p:0059fb88, TCP:<vCenter IP>:80> : Closed

2016-05-25T23:32:34.904+02:00 [12668 error 'Default'] Failed to send response to the client: class Vmacore::IOException(IO error: System exception while trasmitting HTTP Response:

Vmware 6 & Update Manager

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Hi all,

I just deployed Update Manager for my Vmware 6 Vcenter server (build 2776510), enabled Update Manager client plug-in, but I still have no Stage or Remediate button in the right mouse button context menu (only Scan and Attach) in the web client.

So I thought to use the standalone client, but when I log in, there's a certificate alert that block everything and I can't go on.

This certificate alert is related to Update Manager :-(

How can I do? I can't access using standalone client anymore :-(

multiple download services for update manager

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Hi @all,

 

we have a vCenter 6 and a good running update manager. Everything is fine - almost.

 

To the vCenter I have connected some ESXi hosts over a very, very bad WAN. For the daily work the WAN is sufficient. But I'm not able to stage any (bigger) patches or upgrades via the Update Manager to these ESXi's.

 

Is there a way to install a second download service on site? So that the update mangager does the management but the repository is handeled on a second site.

 

Thanks !

 

Wolfgang

esxi 5.5 upgrade from 5.1 iso on vcenter 6.0/vum 6.0 issue

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I am uploading an esxi 5.5 iso image into a vcenter 6.0/vum 6.0 environ,ent but getting an error

 

failed to import data

 

the uploaded upgrade package  cannot be used with vmware vsphere update manager

 

 

any idea

 

 

same thing with uploading this same image into a vcenter 5.1 environment

Vendor Customized ESXi Image and critical patching

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Hello.

 

I would like some advice and guidance on the scenario below...

 

Scenario:

ESXi Vendor Customized Image installed on hosts

Updates to this customized image are released by the vendor on approx a 6 monthly basis

I would like to capture any critical patch releases by VMware and apply them immediately using vUM (not waiting for the Vendors release)

 

Question:

Can I apply the critical ESXi patch releases from VMware to the Vendor Customized install safely using vUM? I.E. The update will not over-right or delete any drivers installed by the vendor release?

 

My preference is to use vUM rather than a command line update if possible.

 

Thanks for your help!


Update ESXi 5.5 hosts automatically

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I have ESXi 5.5 hosts that I would like to update with update manager using the schedule feature.  The issue I have is that we have appliances that run on every host (Trend & Zerto) that are not able to migrate.  The only options with update manager are to either migrate all the vms or power all of them off.  Does anyone know of a solution that we can patch\update our hosts with vms that cannot migrate without shutting off all the other vms on the hosts?

VIM Patch/JRE update not in Update Manager - is this normal?

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Hi All, I am using Update Manager. There is a patch released on 7-27 for JRE update -



Download Size:40.9 MB

JRE 1.8.0_131 patch for vCenter Server 6.5. For more information, see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2150220

 

 

My update manager does not show this as needed. Do update manager not include these in its checks? Thanks.

'UserVars.PXEBootEnabled' is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characters permitted." (vSphere 6.0)

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While trying to scan a host (ESXi 6.0.0 Update 3 build-5050593) I got a rather cryptic failure message in vCenter (Version 6.0.0 Build 3617395):

 

Scan entity <name of ESXi host> VMware vSphere Update Manager had an unknown error. 

Check the events and log files for details.

VSPHERE.LOCAL\Administrator

 

Looking in vpxd.log I found this:

 

2017-07-31T14:02:18.402-04:00 info vpxd[04232] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=6c569171] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-internal-499427 -- EsxHostAdvSettings-217 -- vim.option.OptionManager.queryView: vim.fault.InvalidName:

--> Result:

--> (vim.fault.InvalidName) {

-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

-->    name = "UserVars.PXEBootEnabled",

-->    entity = <unset>,

-->    msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:000000000fca7ae0, TCP:vapelhhost01.local:443>]: queryView

--> Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:1f3178a0, TCP:localhost:8307>]: queryView

--> 'UserVars.PXEBootEnabled' is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characters permitted."

--> }

--> Args:

-->

--> Arg name:

--> "UserVars.PXEBootEnabled"

2017-07-31T14:02:18.423-04:00 info vpxd[04240] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxLro opID=4d28aa2d] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN task-internal-499428 -- host-217 -- vim.HostSystem.GetConfigManager -- 527c060d-9a03-8628-5919-25e69cbd2735(523b7dec-3982-790b-1ff5-4c18aa9cc5ce)

 

followed shortly with:

 

2017-07-31T14:02:18.465-04:00 info vpxd[04264] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=759a9f26] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-internal-499429 -- EsxHostAdvSettings-217 -- vim.option.OptionManager.queryView: vim.fault.InvalidName:

--> Result:

--> (vim.fault.InvalidName) {

-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

-->    name = "UserVars.ImageCachedSystem",

-->    entity = <unset>,

-->    msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:000000000fca7ae0, TCP:vapelhhost01.local:443>]: queryView

--> Received SOAP response fault from [<cs p:1f3178a0, TCP:localhost:8307>]: queryView

--> 'UserVars.ImageCachedSystem' is invalid or exceeds the maximum number of characters permitted."

--> }

--> Args:

-->

--> Arg name:

--> "UserVars.ImageCachedSystem"

2017-07-31T14:02:18.588-04:00 info vpxd[04160] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxLro opID=8f6d0c3] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN task-internal-499432 -- host-217 -- vim.ManagedEntity.GetName -- 527c060d-9a03-8628-5919-25e69cbd2735(523b7dec-3982-790b-1ff5-4c18aa9cc5ce)

 

 

Web searches don't reveal anything useful. I don't have AutoDeploy enabled/configured so PXE shouldn't be an issue. There are no firewalls between the hosts and vCenter/VUM. This is the first time using VUM on this instance of vCenter. A fresh reboot of the host didn't help.

 

Has anyone else encountered this or know what can be done to fix it?

VMware - Update Manager Not Showing Up In vCenter or vSphere Client

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I setup a VM with VMware Update Manager from the 5.5 U3 vCenter download.  I'm running vCenter (Applicance) 5.5.0 build 4180647 (which should be vCenter 5.5 U3e).  I've tried installing the plug-in in the vSphere client (5.5.0 build 1993072 and build 4032365) and I click to install the plugin, it says 100% downloaded and then goes right back to being able to click to download again.  It never seems to install.  I've also logged into the vCenter web client and Update Manager isn't there either. 

I ran the  VMwareUpdateManagerUtility.exe and re-registered with vCenter by name and by IP, but it still never shows up. 

Clients I've tried are Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 and Update Manager is installed on Server 2012 R2.  Help please! 

Updates VIB vs Update Manager

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I found out something recently which I find peculiar.

 

Update manager is slow.

 

I am not talking about click click click, select, click click , then hit remediate vs a copy / paste command in shell window..

 

I am talking when you actually hit 'start', Update manager takes considerably longer.. like 45 minutes vs 10.

 

If I copy the *.vib to a local datastore then run the esxcli update command it is very quick (ESXi is only 350 Meg) then I reboot host, it reboots it comes up with proper build and that's it.

 

Update manager takes a long time there is a progress meter, then it takes a while to copy the files (it is equivalent to local storage) then it sits at 21% waiting for host to reboot, that takes a while.. this is AFTER maintenance mode is already set, so it's not waiting for a response from server to confirm VM's are stop, etc..

 

This is strictly the upgrade process, why is it so much longer via Upgrade manager for the same exactly ISO / VIB file?  Both are from VMware site, nothing special.. I assume ISO is the same as VIB for this part, but maybe not..

 

Still update manager takes a long time, not only that but if I ping a host to monitor progress it reboots .. twice before it finally comes up and shows done in vCenter console.. I find that odd as well.

 

VIB only restarts once and doesn't restart again.

 

I would think that given no special parameters in Update Manager it's just a straight up 'upgrade' no patching no other baselines JUST the upgrade, that's it.  Why is there a discrepancy in the amount of time, anyone else notice this?

Running latest Dell Customised 5.5 build but Update Manager saying missing patches?

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Hi,

 

I have just updated all my hosts to ESXi 5.5 5230635 using the Dell Customized ISO but when I do a Update Manager scan it says I am missing patches

 

Ain't ISO upgrades cumulative and include all previous patches?

Problem exporting UMDS repository

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In my environment I have installed umds on server 2012 and I installed IIS role on server and created a folder named UMDS in root directory of IIS. Now when I am trying to export the repository info, I am getting below error:

 

PS C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager> .\vmware-umds -E --export-store C:\inetpub\wwwroot\UMDS

INFO -  Initializing connection pool

INFO -  Registering sequences

INFO -  Validating database version

Starting export of updates...

ERROR -  Missing version1.txt file

Error with the configured patch store C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\. The directory C:\inetpub\wwwroot\UMDS is not compatible with this version of the product.

Starting export of updates...

ERROR -  Missing version1.txt file

Error with the configured patch store C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\. The directory C:\inetpub\wwwroot\UMDS is not compatible with this version of the product.

 

I am using vSphere 6.0 U3 in my environment. Build 5318203

 

can someone help me with this. I am new to UMDS and this is my first attempt to configure it.


UMDS downlod directly into IIS folder

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In my environment I have a server 2012 with IIS role  and I created a folder named UMDS in the root directory of IIS.

Now I'm installing UMDS on the same server. and I wish to  configure UMDS to download directly into that folder in order to avoid the UMDS donwload in a folder and the export in another folder on the same server. Is it possible to do it ?

cannot download software packages from patch source

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In my environment I have a server 2012 with IIS role  and UMDS .

UMDS download correctly the patches from internet,

I export the patches to the IIS folder

VUM, installed on another server, is configured to download  patches  from IIS and it correctly downloads the definitions.

After creating a baseline, I attach it to one of my host but when I try to remediate it I get:

cannot download software packages from patch source.

It seems that VUM is able to download patch definitions from IIS but it's not able to download the patches.

Any idea?

 

Thanks in advance

 

How can I install a proxy client certificate on vcsa 6.5?

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I am running ESXi 6.5 and the vCenter appliance 6.5.  I am working on getting Update Manager to work through our web proxy.  I have Internet access from the VCSA, but I need to pass through a proxy which requires a client certificate for outbound traffic.  With regular Linux/Unix servers, I merely import this into the CA certificates, then the server is able to unlock the door to go out through the Proxy.  So far, I have been unable to get this to work on the VCSA.  Has anyone else encountered this and knows the answer?  My next move will be to setup the Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) elsewhere, and route to there.

Update Manager 6.0 - "cancel discovering virtual appliance"

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Hey Community,

 

I have an Issue regarding virtual appliance discovery with Update Manager 6.

To resolve this issue, I deactivated Virtual Appliances scanning in Update Manager see KB:

 

The Update Manager task Discovering Virtual Appliance never completes (2047100) | VMware KB

 

After that I restarted the update manager service.

 

unfortunately the "Cancel discovering virtual appliance" tasks is there and could not be cancelled....

task.PNG

In addition I could not restart vcenter at the moment.

 

Thx in advance.

Upgrade VMware tools (Complete install) using Update Manager

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Hi, i need to install the VMCI driver on all virtual machines in my environments (the default  VMware tools install does not include this driver,  a "complete" install is necessary )

to install VMware tools in complete mode i can individually enter advanced mode and add the necessary  flags according to the following KB:

Installing VMware Tools in a Windows virtual machine (1018377) | VMware KB

it would be nice if i could automate this using update manager   but i don't know how to add these flags in the update manager configuration

is it even possible?

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