SDDC Manager precheck error states "ERROR LCM_DIRECTORIES_PERMISSION_CHECK - Check if LCM has read and write permission to LCM self-upgrade related directories : Precheck Health Status - RED "

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Precheck fails with error  "ERROR LCM_DIRECTORIES_PERMISSION_CHECK -
  Check if LCM has read and write permission to LCM self-upgrade related directories"
• Precheck Health Status - RED.
• Error Description states "LCM does not have read/write permission to /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf/feature.properties"
• Remediation states "Make sure LCM App user(vcf_lcm) has read & write permissions to all files & directories involved in LCM slf-upgrade"
• SDDC Manager's lcm.log shows error "Class path resource [feature.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist"
• /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf/feature.properties file shows owner as vcf:vcf instead of vcf_lcm:vcf

Resolution

NOTE: Copying files under lcm-app/conf will lead to further precheck errors. So move the file to /home/vcf
Go to /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf
chown vcf_lcm feature.properties
chmod 750 feature.properties

Then retry the precheck and upgrade.