Cannot perform content capture with error "LCMBLACKSTONE213006" after upgrading Aria Suite Lifecycle to 8.18.0

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading Aria Suite Lifecycle to 8.18.0 all content captures performed fail with error LCMBLACKSTONE213006

Error found in /var/log/vrlcm/blackstone-spring.log

"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/vmware/o11n/tools/cli/PackageToolCli"

Environment

Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18.0

Cause

LCM using Java version 11 instead of Java version 17 as required.

Resolution

Fix: Update to Aria suite lifecycle 8.18 patch 1. Aria Suite lifecycle patch 1

Workaround:
Perform the following steps after taking a snapshot of the environment:

1. Download the jar file attached to this KB.
2. Take note of correct file owner and permission of jar file in folder: "/opt/vmware/vlcm/blackstone/vco-cli/8.18.0"
3. Replace the jar in the following folder: "/opt/vmware/vlcm/blackstone/vco-cli/8.18.0"
4. Apply same permissions for jar file that was on the previous jar.
   1. chmod 770
   2. chown root
5. Perform a capture task