Integrating vRealize Operations with PKS fails with "Connect timed out"
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Integrating vRealize Operations with PKS fails with "Connect timed out"

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Article ID: 315924

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Products

VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
When integrating vRealize Operations with PKS (TKGI), the Cloud Account reports an error on 'Validate connection" 

Error: Connect to PKS_FQDN:8443 Failed: Connect timed out

Environment

VMware vRealize Operations 8.x

Cause

vRealize Operations and PKS (TKGI) need a network connection on port 9021, if this is not opened then you will see the below in vRealize Operations logs 

2021-05-05T12:41:58,562+0000 ERROR [Collector worker thread 23] (329) com.vmware.vrops.adapter.pks.services.PKSClusterService.testConnection - Error while checking the connection
        org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to xx.xx.xx.xx:9021 [xx.xx.xx.xx] failed: Connection refused (Connection refused)
    * Without this port vROPS will not be able to get API response from PKS controller

Resolution

To resolve this issue, open TCP port 9021 from all nodes in the vRealize Operations cluster to the PKS server/controller