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Overview Applying VCF Operations fleet management appliance 9.0.1.0 patch on top of version 9.0.0.0 is pretty straight forward. This does not need a reboot of the appliance , as it just triggers a service restart. What we noticed was this VCF Operations fleet management appliance was rebooted for some weird reason we did see 2 issues happening Postgres Service fails to start Certificate of VCF Operations fleet management is regenerated If this appliance isn't restarted, you w

Retrieving Password from Locker Step 1: Generate API Token To generate an API token, you can use either the VCF Operations Fleet Management appliance  logging into the shell as a root user or any Base64 encoding tool. Encode your credentials in the following format: echo   'admin@local:youradminatlocalpassword'   |   base64 Copy the resulting Base64-encoded string. This will be used for authorization. Step 2: Authenticate via Swagger UI Open the API documentation in your brow

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In a very rare scenario, you VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle upgrade might be failing before it even starts to upgrade to the new version....

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VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.14 introduces an innovative capability known as "VMware Identity Manager Cluster Auto-Recovery". Why do we...

This is a rare occurrance and might be seen on appliances which were deployed with fips mode disabled. Tried to explain this in a video...

A week back , there was a scenario where a check for an upgrade was being performed in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.10 to be...

There's a scenario where /storage partition is full. This is the one which hosts database which is used by vRSLCM 8.x In this scenarion ,...

Have a usecase to increase size of vRSLCM appliance's data partition Current settings of the partitions on appliance root@dlcm [ ~ ]# df...

When you perform an upgrade to latest version of vRSLCM that's 8.8.2.3 and you perform a "Check for Upgrade" it would throw a red banner...

There was a recent scenario where vRSLCM log generation was not happening through UI So let's take a minute to see what happens when you...

vRLSCM 8.x deployment through Easy Installer or vCF might fail while initializing postgres database with below exception Below snippet is...

Last night we had ADFS configured in my lab on vIDM ( globalenvironment ) and it was working as expected with vRealize Automation Over...

Last week was involved on a use-case where our team was helping one of our customer to onboard virtual machines to vRealize Automation...

Recently , worked on a case where user had challenges in creating a webhook for git We were hitting an exception stating 400 Bad Request...