Cleanup stale tasks after SDDC Manager recovery.

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

After SDDC manager recovery from backup, bundle related tasks in the taskbar are shown as "Fetching subtask info" with "In progress" state and never change.

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In some cases no task would be running. Though we will see few tasks in the running state under Task status.

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Environment

SDDC Manager 5.2.1.2

Resolution

1. Upload clean_tasks.sh on SDDC manager appliance
2. Navigate to location where the script is and execute 'chmod +x clean_tasks.sh'
3. Connect to SDDC Manager as the root user, first, log in via SSH as the vcf user. Then, switch to the root user using the su - command
4. Execute script 'clean_tasks.sh' as root user.

NOTE: At the location where the script is you can find the table backup file.
If the script execution is successful this file is no longer needed and can be deleted.