Pushing content in Aria (vRealize) LCM to an appliance, the request hangs for more than an hour, but eventually finishes successfully

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Possible Symptoms:

• Issue pushing Automation-PolicyDefinition to Aria Automation from the Aria Suite Lifecycle Content Management
• Content task hangs for more than an hour, but eventually finishes successfully
• Other content types may be pushed successfully to the same vRA host
• This may only affect certain vRA appliance(s), while others work with all content 
• Log messages like the below may be seen slowly trickling out, with page number increasing:

2024-07-01 11:37:20.698  INFO lcm.example.org --- [ContentAsync-30] c.v.b.c.s.AbstractService           [getListResponse] : list url : https://vra.example.org/deployment/api/deployments?page=209
2024-07-01 11:37:23.018  INFO lcm.example.org --- [ool-2-thread-17] c.v.b.c.s.AbstractService           [getListResponse] : list url : https://vra.example.org/blueprint/api/blueprints?page=0
2024-07-01 11:37:23.742 DEBUG lcm.example.org --- [ContentAsync-30] c.v.b.u.CommonUtil                  [httpGetWithRetry] : Get Url : https://vra.example.org/deployment/api/deployments?page=209
2024-07-01 11:37:24.961  INFO lcm.example.org --- [ContentAsync-30] c.v.b.c.s.AbstractService           [getListResponse] : list url : https://vra.example.org/deployment/api/deployments?page=210
2024-07-01 11:37:27.104 DEBUG lcm.example.org --- [ool-2-thread-17] c.v.b.u.CommonUtil                  [httpGetWithRetry] : Get Url : https://vra.example.org/blueprint/api/blueprints?page=0

Environment

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.16.x - earlier versions may also be affected

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18 before Patch 1

Cause

This is caused by the "paging" behaviour while listing these definitions, where there are a large number of them already on the Automation host

Resolution

This is fixed in LCM 8.18 Patch 1