Failed to integrate Standalone Aria Orchestrator 8.18.1 with Aria Automation

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• In Aria Orchestrator 8.18.1, control center UI has been deprecated
• After run "vracli vro authentication wizard" command, error "Failed to validate credentials. Error: 920001: Bad credentials." returned when integrating Aria Orchestrator 8.18.1 with Aria Automation.

Environment

Aria Automation 8.x

Aria Orchestrator 8.18.1

Cause

"vco-app" need to re-deployed after integrating with Aria Automation, which was missing from product document.

Resolution

1. Following document below to configure authentication provider for standalone Aria Orchestrator 8.18.1:

Configure a standalone Automation Orchestrator server with VMware Aria Automation authentication

2. Run command "kubectl rollout restart deployment vco-app  -n prelude" to restart vco-app

3. Following document below to integrate standalone Aria Orchestrator with Aria Automation:

Configure an Automation Orchestrator Client integration in Automation Assembler