Unable to connect to internal Cassandra database with cqlsh-no-pass

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• After upgrading to Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.3, you are unable to connect to the Cassandra database using the cqlsh-no-pass command, although there are no issues with the Cassandra cluster itself.
• After applying a custom certificate to Aria Operations for Logs through the UI or via Aria Suite Lifecycle you are unable to access the internal Cassandra database with the cqlsh-no-pass command.
• While running the cqlsh-no-pass command to connect to the Cassandra database, the following error is displayed:

  Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'127.0.0.1:9042': PermissionError(1, "Tried connecting to [('127.0.0.1', 9042)]. Last error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self-signed certificate (_ssl.c:1007)")})

Environment

Aria Operations for logs 8.18.3

Resolution

1. Log in to the node as root via SSH or vSphere Console
   
   
2. Update the cqlshrc configuration file
   

   sed -i '/^validate = /s/true/false/' /storage/core/loginsight/cidata/cassandra/config/cqlshrc

3. Connect to the internal Cassandra database
   

   cqlsh-no-pass

Note: This workaround will only be effective until the next time the appliance VM is rebooted. Repeat steps 1-3 if access to the internal Cassandra database is required again after rebooting the node.

Additional Information

This behavior will be fixed in a future version of VMware Aria Operations for Logs.