After upgrading the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance from version 8.16.0 to 8.18, the network configuration (IP address, netmask, and gateway) is lost after rebooting, restricting the services from getting started.
-ifconfig on VM shows local loopback and IP address of 127.0.0.1
-service network status shows Active: inactive (dead)
-Running command /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net option 0 shows no networking assigned to the VM
Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (LCM) (vRSLCM) (vRLCM) 8.18
The problem is related to a known issue in the Photon OS handling of network services post-upgrade.
To resolve the issue of network configuration loss, the following steps are recommended:
systemctl restart systemd-networkd
To ensure a persistent workaround post reboot:
service network start
/opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net
and then go through the options to set the networking again.Next, we will add a crontab entry to automatically run the systemctl restart systemd-networkd
command on boot
crontab -e
to edit the system cron@reboot systemctl restart systemd-networkd
:wq!
to write, save, and quit