Image Mapping failing in Aria Automation with HTTPS for S3 stored ova

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• UI shows 'OVF could not be verified at the given URL' error for https image mapped ova's
• The /services-logs/prelude/provisioning-service-app/file-logs/provisioning-service-app.log file contains an error similar to:
  
  

WARN provisioning [host='provisioning-service-app-####' thread='reactor-http-epoll-15' user='###' org='####' trace='####' parent='####' span='####'] c.v.xenon.common.ServiceErrorResponse.create:85 - message: is not a valid URL, statusCode: 400, serverErrorId: ####:
Caused by java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: is not a valid URL
at com.vmware.admiral.compute.endpoint.OvfParserService.handleGet(OvfParserService.java:142)
at com.vmware.xenon.common.StatelessService.handleRequest(StatelessService.java:153)

Environment

• • Aria Automation 8.18.1

Cause

A code defect causing url encoding issues.

Resolution

The issue is resolved in the upcoming Aria Automation 8.18.1 Patch 2.