Cancel long running requests in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (formerly vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager)

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

This article provides the steps on how to cancel log running requests on VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

Environment

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x

Resolution

1. Try to cancel the request directly by using the ellipsis button associated with the request.    If not available then follow the steps below to use the API to cancel.

2. Take a snapshot of VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, if the request is a day 2 action operation on a VMware Aria Suite product or VMware Identity Manager take a snapshot of the other appliance too. 

3. Login to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle with the local admin account admin@local, ​​​​​On VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI select Lifecycle Operations > Requests, and click on the long-running request you would like to cancel.

3. Copy the request ID.

4. Access the Swagger API for VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

5.  Select the specification for 2. private-internal-api

6. Search the following API: Request Controller and then click on POST /lcm/request/api/request/cancel/{requestId}

7. Click on Try it out. 

8. Add the request ID on the requestId field, then click on Execute.

9. Validate the results.