The Bundle Transfer Utility fails to download the latest version of manifest with a 404 error message

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

• Unable to download manifest files using the --bundleManifests option with Bundle Transfer Utility version 5.x or earlier.
• The lcm-bundle-transfer-util is returning a 404 error, as seen in the /var/log/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-debug.log file of the SDDC manager. 

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.826+0000 [main] DEBUG [com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.bundle.download.depot.DepotDownloader] Executing HEAD /[TOKEN]/PROD/COMP/SDDC_MANAGER_VCF/manifests/#######-####-####-#####-##########.manifest.sig
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.894+0000 [main] DEBUG [com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.bundle.download.depot.DepotDownloader] Got response: 404 Not Found HTTP/1.1
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.894+0000 [main] ERROR [com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.bundle.download.depot.DepotDownloader] Error getting file size, got response: 404 Not Found HTTP/1.1
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.895+0000 [main] DEBUG [com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.bundle.download.depot.DepotDownloader] Connection closed
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.895+0000 [main] ERROR [com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.tools.bundletransfer.BundleTransferUtilityDownloader] Failed to download bundle manifest files.
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.917+0000 [main] ERROR [com.vmware.evo.sddc.lcm.tools.bundletransfer.BundleTransferUtility] Bundle Transfer Utility Tool failed with error : 404 Not Found HTTP/1.1

Environment

Bundle Transfer Utility 5.x or earlier

Cause

This is no longer feasible due to recent changes introduced by Broadcom to the VMware Depot URL and its authentication mechanism.

Resolution

• Use Bundle Transfer Utility 9.0 or later to perform the download.
  
  
• The VCF Download Tool can be obtained from the  Broadcom Support Portal by navigating to:
  • My Downloads > VMware Cloud Foundation > VMware Cloud Foundation 9 > Drivers & Tools
    
    
• After extracting the archive, the Bundle Transfer Utility 9.0(lcm-bundle-transfer-util) will be located at bin/ within the extracted folder.

Additional Information

Refer: Offline Download of Flexible BOM Upgrade Bundles