Error Code: LCMVRAVACONFIG90030 VMware Aria Automation VA Upgrade Status Check failed.

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)
• VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.x

Issue/Introduction

• Applying the VMware Aria Automation security patch fails using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
• In order to apply  the patch, customer follows the KB https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=325790 
• VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle request comes back with the error Code: LCMVRAVACONFIG90030 VMware Aria Automation VA Upgrade Status Check failed.
• You can find in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle log location /var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log below error

ERROR [pool-3-thread-29] c.v.v.l.p.c.v.t.VraVaUpgradeStatusCheckTask -  -- Un-expected status seen after Upgrade on VMware Aria Automation VA vraNodeFqdn. To know more about the failure, run command "vracli upgrade status --details" on the VMware Ari
a Automation VA vraNodeFqdn. Upgrade is not successful, VMware Aria Automation appliance has been auto reverted to its previous working state. You can retry the upgrade by going to the product section
INFO  [pool-3-thread-29] c.v.v.l.p.a.s.Task -  -- Injecting task failure event. Error Code : 'LCMVRAVACONFIG90030', Retry : 'true', Causing Properties : '{ CAUSE :: revertSnapshot ===  }'
com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.common.exception.EngineException: Upgrade on VMware Aria Automation VA vraNodeFqdn failed with state Unexpected Error. To know more about the failure, run command "vracli upgrade status --details" on the VMware Aria Automation VA vraNodeFqdn. To revert to snapshot, click RETRY with revertSnapshot property set to true.
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin.core.vra80.task.VraVaUpgradeStatusCheckTask.execute(VraVaUpgradeStatusCheckTask.java:436) [vmlcm-vrapreludeplugin-core-8.16.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.automata.core.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:62) [vmlcm-engineservice-core-8.16.0-SNAPSHOT.jar!/:?]
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [?:?]
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [?:?]
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [?:?]
INFO  [scheduling-1] c.v.v.l.r.c.RequestProcessor -  -- Updating the Environment request status to FAILED for request ID : d07f2420-5f8b-40c4-88a9-6793adaecd61 with request type : PRODUCT_PATCH_INSTALL.

• You can find in the VMware Aria Automation log location /var/log/vmware/prelude/upgrade-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS.log below error 

[vraNodeFqdn] Creating upgrade configaration from installables ...
[vraNodeFqdn] Aggregating upgrade configuration of all installables ...
[vraNodeFqdn] Upgrade configuration of all installables aggregated successfully.
[vraNodeFqdn] Computing version dependent upgrade configuration of installables ...
[vraNodeFqdn] Version dependent upgrade configuration of installables computed sucessfully.
[vraNodeFqdn] Reducing upgrade configuration of installables ...
[vraNodeFqdn] Creating upgrade configuration from installables failed.
[vraNodeFqdn] Creating upgrade plan failed.

• You can find in the VMware Aria Automation log location /var/log/vmware/prelude/upgrade-error-YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS.log

[vraNodeFqdn] Creating upgrade configuration from installables failed.
[vraNodeFqdn] Creating upgrade plan failed.
[vraNodeFqdn] Creating upgrade configuration from installables failed.
[vraNodeFqdn] Creating upgrade plan failed.

Environment

VMware Aria Automation 8.x

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Cause

The error was due to attempt of apply the same patch twice to VMware Aria Automation.

Resolution

Please validate the patches applied already, before attempt to apply new one.
You can check the patches in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI, open the Environment >> expand the Patches >> expand History

You can also check if patch was applied using the command line.

1. Open SSH to the VMware Aria Automation appliance

2. Run the command:

vracli version patch

If you have clustered deployment, you can run the command to get results from all nodes

vracli cluster exec -- bash -c "vracli version ;vracli version patch"