AD Sync is not happening in vIDM which is causing login issues to Aria Automation portal.
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AD Sync is not happening in vIDM which is causing login issues to Aria Automation portal.

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Article ID: 394855

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Products

VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

  • Error in Aria Automation UI : 403 Error it appears that you don't have access

  • vIDM 3.3.7 shows error in the admin portal for the SSH user,"Password for user sshuser has expired"

 

Environment

vIDM  3.3.7

Resolution

  • Create snapshots without memory in VC for all vIDM nodes. 

  • Login as root via SSH on all vIDM node(s).

  • Run this command : passwd sshuser on the all nodes to create a new SSH User password.

  • In Aria Lifecycle add or update the new  SSH and SSH user credentials in the Locker and sync the changes done in vIDM.
  •  Run below command on primary node to increase the OpenSearch max shards count to 6500/8200:

    curl -X PUT localhost:9200/_cluster/settings -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "persistent":
    { "cluster.max_shards_per_node": "8200" }
    }'  

    sourceAD group are not syncing with Identity Manager and users are able to access Aria Automation.

  • In vIDM, determine current health status, it can being see in the user  interface via command, use the command below: watch curl http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true .  

Note:  In the above command output, Elasticsearch/Opensearch cluster status can be: Red, Yellow, Green.
The health status will flag as Red, If there are a number of UNASSIGNED shards within the cluster. Try steps 3,4,5,6, from KB  After upgrading to vIDM 3.3.7, user dashboard reporting and Active Directory sync log are not updating: the cluster currently has the maximum number of shards open
Sync the groups in vIDM

 

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