Auto-deploy web page not loading and/or erroring with "Managing rules is temporarily unavailable. An error occurred while connecting to the Auto Deploy service."

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Create a new image profile for auto deploy and select vCenter, the software depots tab spins and errors out. The other tabs say "Managing rules is temporarily unavailable. An error occurred while connecting to the Auto Deploy service."

• rbd-syslog.log
  2024-10-29T11:14:20.935922-05:00 err rbd  [1381229]director:ERROR:Failed to check the VCHA value
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "bora/install/vmvisor/autodeploy/site-packages/vmware/rbd/waiter/cgi/director.py", line 272, in _isVCHAConfigured
    File "bora/install/vmvisor/autodeploy/site-packages/vmware/rbd/waiter/vc_servers.py", line 148, in serviceInstance
    File "bora/install/vmvisor/autodeploy/site-packages/vmware/rbd/waiter/vc_servers.py", line 77, in connect
  Exception: No default VC configured

Environment

vCenter 8.x

Cause

vCenter is no longer registered with auto-deploy service.

Resolution

Register vCenter using following command:      /usr/bin/waiter-cfg addvc [options] <ip/hostname> <username> <password>