Aria Suite Licenses shows Validation failed when added to Aria Operations for Networks
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Aria Suite Licenses shows Validation failed when added to Aria Operations for Networks

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Article ID: 402231

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Products

VCF Operations for Networks

Issue/Introduction

After adding an Aria Suite License to Aria Operations for Networks and clicking the Validate button, an error stating "Validation Failed" is generated.

  1. This is VCF Based License. 

  2. Refer to error screenshots below seen below:

Environment

VCF Operations for Networks 6.14

Cause

Validate fails as license key in question is for VCF Operations and  not for VCF Operations for Networks and the key entered cannot be used for VCF Ops for Networks.
You must obtain a VCF VCF Operations for Networks key. 

Resolution

Follow the steps mentioned in KB Download license keys for Broadcom, CA, Symantec, and VMware products to generate and download your license keys from the My Entitlements page from Broadcom portal.

Additional Information

To entitle VMware Aria Operations for Networks, you must apply the license keys to VMware vCenter, and VMware Aria Operations for Networks automatically fetches the entitlement after you add an entitled VMware vCenter as a data source or enter a valid license key.

Refer to public facing document  for VMware Aria Operations for Networks Licenses