"VMware vAPI Endpoint Service Health Alarm" due to the duplicate service registrations after upgrading vCenter to 7.0

Products

• VMware vCenter Server 7.0

Issue/Introduction

^{Summary tab in vSphere Client shows "VMware vAPI Endpoint Service Health Alarm" in vCenter Server 7.0.} 

^{You see a warning in /var/log/vmware/vapi/endpoint/endpoint.log , similar to :}

^{YYYY-MM-DD  | WARN | state-manager1      | ApiConnectionsStateBuilder   | Duplicate service URLs detected for URL http://localhost:10095/trustmanagement and serviceIds 204c27a6-17b8-4249-a689-34794704eaff\com.vmware.trustmanagement.vapi and 03f85a86-ffd8-424f-afce-70080d9afecd\com.vmware.trustmanagement.vapi. Service 204c27a6-17b8-4249-a689-34794704eaff\com.vmware.trustmanagement.vapi will not be registered.}

^{YYYY-MM-DD   | INFO | state-manager1      | StatusInfoFactory       | HEALTH YELLOW Incorrect service registration found in Lookup Service. Multiple services registered on same URL - http://localhost:10095/trustmanagement.}

Environment

 ^{VMware vCenter Server 7.x}

Resolution

<sup>To fix this issue, you will need to remove the duplicate service(s) endpoints.

Note: Please make sure to have a valid backup or offline (VCSA VM powered off) snapshot before applying the below steps.</sup> 

^{Log in to the vCenter Server Appliance through SSH.}

^{Remove the duplicate service with lstool.py. The service to remove is the one that endpoint.log mentions "will not be registered". It is "204c27a6-17b8-4249-a689-34794704eaff" on the above case.} 

^{# /usr/lib/vmware-lookupsvc/tools/lstool.py unregister --url https://localhost:7090/lookupservice/sdk --id 204c27a6-17b8-4249-a689-34794704eaff --user '[email protected]' --password 'PASSWORD' --no-check-cert} 

<sup>Reboot the VCSA, or restart all services.

#service-control --stop --all && service-control --start --all</sup>

Additional Information

^{This issue is being checked by Diagnostics for VMware Cloud Foundation.}

^{The check is as follows:}

• ^{Product: vCenter}

• ^{Log File: endpoint.log} 

• ^{Log Expression Check "Duplicate service URLs detected" AND "will not be registered."}