Error: "Can't Auto Discover vCenter" or "Invalid vRO request params" while using orchestrator plugin for vcloud Director

Products

• VMware Cloud Director
• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

• Register a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Instance with VMware Cloud Director following steps Register a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Instance with VMware Cloud Director returns error "Can't Auto Discover vCenter".

• Alternatively you may see the error "Invalid vRO request params":

• vCloud Director presents following stack error in the vcloud-container-debug.log:

Caused by: com.vmware.vim.sso.client.exception.InternalError: Failed trying to retrieve token: ns0:RequestFailed: EndTime: Wed Aug 15 08:00:01 GMT 2012 is not after startTime: Wed Dec 04 09:00:03 GMT 2024
        at com.vmware.vim.sso.client.impl.SecurityTokenServiceImpl$RequestResponseProcessor.handleFaultCondition(SecurityTokenServiceImpl.java:1161)

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.6

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.18.1

Cause

• This feature is deprecated and will be removed from future versions
• The latest possible combination is VMware Cloud Director 10.6 + VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.18.0
• Kindly refer to our Interoperability Matrix here

Resolution

Make sure the solutions/products are in line with our supportability combination according to the Interop Matrix

Additional Information

Notes: The stack/timestamp seen is generic caused by a dummy certificate injected in the code and cannot be replaced