VMware Aria Operations 8.18.3

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

This article covers the fixes made in VMware Aria Operations 8.18.3 from previous versions:

• VCF Operations product UI remains in forever "Loading Resources... " state after internal api call
• Cloud Provider icon & last-modified date are breaking when upgrading 8.18GA/HF after editing the Cloud Provider rate-card.
• Pricing metrics are not published and not included in bills for deleted objects
• Fix create/cancel/update time variables in a webhook template
• VMC-A NSX-T Adapter shows wrong log messages
• Storage vMotion between the vSAN8 datastores is failing using the workload optimization feature
• VMC-A NSX-T Adapter fails to collect T1 router metrics
• Self relation can't be applied to symptom defs of other resource kinds - OOTB Alert misconfiguration
• Some dashboard IDs have been changed, hence, the corresponding cards should be updated on the Dashboards > Home page
• UI: Adding new Http check with a different URL and the same method is failing
• After reducing the workload of threshold checking, some nodes continue forwarding data entries until the total reaches 80,000
• The UserContext is not set when performing a test action from the Webhook plugin's Edit dialog.
• Chargeback: Bill Calculation: Start time is set wrongly
• Notification Rule: Criteria reset when editing notification rule
• Objects are bouncing in and out of Maintenance Schedule every 20-30min
• Can't upgrade Telegraf agent from version 8.17.2.454 to 8.18.0 via the GUI on a physical Windows server
• The comma-separated data file does not contain the property value
• Closed alerts incorrectly appear on the App-Level Alerts banner
• "Please define loadData function in object summary component" error appears on object details page
• Payload Template: Webhook: JSON Parsing Issue: Worked in 8.14, Fails in 8.18.2
• vCD plugin is missing from v8.18.2 release build

To see which CVEs have been resolved please review attached Fixed CVEs.xlsx file.

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.3

 

Resolution

VMware Aria Operations 8.18.3 can be applied to any 8.14.x - 8.18.x environment.

It is recommended to take snapshots following How to take a Snapshot of VMware Aria Operations before upgrading.

1. Download the VMware Aria Operations 8.18.3 upgrade PAK file from the Broadcom Support Portal.
2. Log in to the primary node Aria Operations Administrator interface of your cluster at https://primary-node-FQDN-or-IP-address/admin.
3. Click Software Update in the left panel.
4. Click Install a Software Update in the main panel.
5. Follow the steps in the wizard to locate and install your PAK file.
6. Install the product update PAK file.
   Wait for the software update to complete. When it does, the Administrator interface logs you out.
7. Log back into the master node Administrator interface.
   The main Cluster Status page appears and cluster goes online automatically. The status page also displays the Bring Online button, but do not click it.

     8. Clear the browser caches and if the browser page does not refresh automatically, refresh the page.

         The cluster status changes to Going Online. When the cluster status changes to Online, the upgrade is complete.

Note: If a cluster fails and the status changes to offline during the installation process of a PAK file update then some nodes become unavailable. To fix this, you can access the Administrator interface and manually take the cluster offline and click Finish Installation to continue the installation process.

     9. Click Software Update to check that the update is done.

         A message indicating that the update completed successfully appears in the main panel.