vmware probe error: (12) login failed,VMWare API is unavailable. VI SDK invoke

Products

• DX Infrastructure Management
• NIMSOFT PROBES

Issue/Introduction

When a customer tries to add a virtual center, the customer get's the following message (12) login failed,VMWare API is unavailable. VI SDK invoke  exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect: VI SDK invoke  exception:java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused : connect.

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When the customer tries to add a Vcenter to the vmware probe, they get the following messages:

Failed to query host
Exception Log:
(12) login failed,VMWare API is unavailable. VI SDK invoke
exception:java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect: VI SDK invoke
exception:java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused : connect.
 

Environment

Release:
Component: UIMVMW

Resolution

The first step is to make sure that it is not a credentials issue.

 

1- Open the vmware configuration (if you can). Highlight 'IP', right-click and select, 'Edit'.?

2- Press the Test button (the patrol / password credentials should already be populated). Can you successfully 'Test' your connection??

3- If this fails, then log into vCenter directly with the 'admin' account, and verify that your connection string in the probe is set correctly.

If it is not a credentials issue, the next step is locate the java.security file from the \lib\security and comment out the following:

"jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, RSA keySize < 1024"

It is usually found on the following path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nimsoft\jre\jre7\lib\security"

After making the change restart the robot.