Importing Aria Operations into Aria Lifecycle manager fails with NullPointerException during FetchContentLibrariesTask
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Importing Aria Operations into Aria Lifecycle manager fails with NullPointerException during FetchContentLibrariesTask

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Article ID: 314901

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Products

VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
  • Importing Aria Operations into Aria Lifecycle manager fails with a NullPointerException during FetchContentLibrariesTask
  • The /var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log logfile contains a stack trace similar to:

com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.common.exception.EngineException at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.core.vsphere65Plus.contentlibrary.FetchContentLibrariesTask.execute(FetchContentLibrariesTask.java:143) at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.core.vsphere65Plus.contentlibrary.FetchContentLibrariesTask.retry(FetchContentLibrariesTask.java:) at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.automata.core.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.core.vsphere65Plus.contentlibrary.FetchContentLibrariesTask.execute(FetchContentLibrariesTask.java:) ... 5 more


Environment

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Cause

The issue can occur when there is a problem with the content library service on an integrated vCenter Server instance.

Resolution

1. To resolve the issue login to the vSphere web client and ensure the content library service is running and healthy.

2. To restart the content library service ssh to the vCenter server appliance with the root user and execute the command:

service-control --restart vmware-content-library