How to cancel a long running request on VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle (formerly known as vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager)

Products

• 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. 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. 

2. 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.