Renewed expired self signed vCenter cert - broke a few things with SVT Federation

[TomWn]

Hello SVT Community!

I have a 3 node 4.0.1 SVT Federation with MVA.

The vCenter self-signed cert expired a few weeks back. I have managed to renew it, but this broke many things within the Federation. I ran dsv commands to re-auth the OVC with vCenter. This has worked well and the Federation is healthy.

However, the plugin functions in vCenter are broken. I cannot view any of the policies or any SVT attributes.

I have removed and reinstalled the vCenter plugin, but this didn't help. 

Need some guidance on how to proceed.

Thanks!

[gustenar]

Hello @TomWn, 

That was a symptom of an issue documented here:

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00122345en_us

You are not running one of the affected versions of Simplivity software documented there, but the version of vCenter might be the same. Also, what was the command you ran in the OVCs?

[TomWn]

Hello gustenar,

I read the advisory you linked, the solution is to upgrade the SVT VCSA plugin. Is that an option for me? I was under the assumption we needed to stay with the same version as our federation?

I ran the following commands on each OVC (and rebooted in turn):

- login into OVC with username svtcli and password that you provided during deployment

- sudo su

- source /var/tmp/build/bin/appsetup

- dsv-update-vcenter --server "you vcenter server IP" --username "vcenter credentials" --password "vcenter credentials"

Thanks!

Tom

[gustenar]

My recommendation is that you plan on upgrading Simplivity software and related components (vCenter, ESXi, firmware) to the latest version your platform supports. Right now you are running an inactive version of software. Upgrading not only is going to fix this issue, but it will provide you other fixes and enhancements for your systems.