Following patch update from vcenter appliance from 7U3d to 7U3m, vpxd-svcs service not starting

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vCenter Server 7.0

Issue/Introduction

Address the error "Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays" when attempting to start vpxd-svcs.

Symptoms:

Following patch update from vcenter appliance from 7U3d to 7U3m, vpxd-svcs service not starting and vpx-svcs logs are throwing error :

 

vpxd-svcs.log:

2024-08-28T16:41:27.836+05:30 [main [] INFO  com.vmware.vim.dataservices.VpxdSvcsMain  opId=] Starting service via vmon
2024-08-28T16:41:30.545+05:30 [main [] WARN  org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext  opId=] Exception encountered during context initializat
ion - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean definition with name 'isAccessLogCreated' defined in clas
s path resource [server-config.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"; nested excepti
on is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"
2024-08-28T16:41:30.559+05:30 [main [] ERROR com.vmware.vim.dataservices.VpxdSvcsMain  opId=] start: Tagging and Authz services failed to start
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Invalid bean definition with name 'isAccessLogCreated' defined in class path resource [server-config.xml]: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'dataservice.access.logging.maxDays' in value "${dataservice.access.logging.maxDays}"

 

This issue is observed even when you update from  7.0u3q to 70u3r.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 7.0.3

Cause

This issue is due to a file that was not updated during the update : /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties. It would show this :

"vpxdsvcs.version=8"

 

Instead of expected :

"vpxdsvcs.version=12

> dataservice.access.logging.maxDays=0

> dataservice.access.logging.checkExists=true

> dataservice.access.logging.maxSize=1048576

> dataservice.access.logging.frequencySeconds=600"

Resolution

1.Take a backup of the file :

cp /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties /root/

 

Then amend the file as follow /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties :

Replace :

--

vpxdsvcs.version=8

--

 

With :

--

dataservice.access.logging.maxDays=0

dataservice.access.logging.checkExists=true

dataservice.access.logging.maxSize=1048576

dataservice.access.logging.frequencySeconds=600

--

 

2.Start vpxd-svcs.

 

Additional Information

Note:

Make sure you have a backup of the file before performing any modification : /var/lib/vmware/vpxd-svcs/config/dataservice.properties.