Unable to add new Marketplace connection

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• After the upgrade of the VCD from 10.4.1 to 10.5, under ContentHub section the "New" button is missing.

• Cannot manage vmware marketplace resources.

Environment

10.x

Cause

• This is a known issue for VMware Cloud Director multisite feature, creating and managing VMware Marketplace resources using the Service Provider Admin Portal is not possible. This issue does not affect tenants.

Resolution

• Please check the following to add VMware Marketplace using API through Postman:
  
  See  Create Catalog Content Source

POST https://<VCD IP or FQDN>/cloudapi/1.0.0/catalogContentSources
 
Headers:
Accept: application/json;version=39.0.0-alpha
Content-Type: application/json;version=39.0.0-alpha
Authorization: Bearer #####

Body:
{
  "url": "https://gtw.marketplace.cloud.vmware.com/api/v1",
  "description": "",
  "sourceType": "VmwareMarketplace",
  "orgId": "urn:vcloud:org:a93c9db9-####-####-####-########5f9",
  "owner": {
    "name": "system",
    "id": "urn:vcloud:user:07e746aa-####-####-####-########c6a"
  },
  "name": "<Name of VMware Marketplace>",
  "lastSynced": null,
  "apiToken": "<Generated token from https://console.cloud.vmware.com/csp/gateway/discovery>"
}
NOTE: Add the name and the api Token. See VCD API Token.
 
Take note of the VMware MarketPlace ID from the above response. i.e. urn:vcloud:catalogContentSource:#######

• To share the new VMware Marketplace created using API through Postman:
  
  Reference : Update Access Control Grants

PUT https://<VCD IP or FQDN>/cloudapi/1.0.0/catalogContentSources/urn:vcloud:catalogContentSource:<VMware MarketPlace ID from the above POST call>/accessControls
 
Headers:
Accept: application/json;version=39.0.0-alpha
Content-Type: application/json;version=39.0.0-alpha
Authorization: Bearer XXXXX

Body:
{
    "resultTotal": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "page": 1,
    "pageSize": 25,
    "associations": null,
    "values": [
        {
            "id": "urn:vcloud:accessControl:8f3f6906-####-####-####-########98d",
            "tenant": {
                "name": "<name of Org>",
                "id": "urn:vcloud:org:<id of org>"
            },
            "grantType": "MembershipAccessControlGrant",
            "objectId": "urn:vcloud:catalogContentSource:<VMware MarketPlace ID from the above POST call>:<VMware MarketPlace ID from the above POST call>",
            "accessLevelId": "urn:vcloud:accessLevel:ReadOnly",
            "memberId": "urn:vcloud:org:<id of org>"
        }
    ]
}

NOTE: The ID of the Organization can be taken from the VCD URL, i.e. https://<VCD IP or FQDN>/provider/cloud/organizations/urn:vcloud:org:#######/configure/general

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