Aria Automation upgrade fails with 'Error while deploying services' and 'vco-app' pods failing to come up fully
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Article ID: 312283
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Products
VMware Aria Suite
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
Upgrade fails with 'Error while deploying services.'
output of 'kubectl -n prelude get pods' shows most pods running but the 'vco-app' pods are only partially running.
Checking 'vco'-app' logs we only see below errors:
nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.vmware.symphony.csp.auth.service.CspClient]: Factory method 'cspClientService' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: expected system property https.proxyPort to be a number but got empty string
Environment
VMware Aria Automation 8.x
Cause
The issue occurs when the proxy service has been disabled using command vracli proxy disable. This should not be done unless consulted with VMware. The SOAP plugin requires the http.proxyPort property to be non-empty. If you do not wish to leverage the proxy enable it again with the default settings as per the resolution section.
Resolution
To resolve the issue follow the steps outlined below:
1. If using an external HTTP proxy run the following commands to enable the proxy and restart vRO. # Enable the proxy vracli proxy enable # Appy the change vracli proxy apply
If there is no need of an external proxy, restore the default proxy configuration. # Delete the current configuration vracli proxy delete # Set the default configuration vracli proxy set-default # Apply changes vracli proxy apply
2. To verify that this reset has worked, execute the following command: