SDDC Manager bundle management and Plan Patching cannot find latest patches for ESX, NSX and the vCenter

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

vCenter patch shows no patches available, ESXi and NSX do not show the latest patches

Environment

SDDC 5.2

Cause

The issue is caused due to an extra space at the end of the following properties in /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf/application-prod.properties

From the below line, notice an extra space at the end of the line

lcm.depot.adapter.remote.lcmProductVersionCatalogDir=/COMP/SDDC_MANAGER_VCF/lcm/productVersionCatalog $

Resolution

SSH into the SDDC cli

Navigate to the directory /opt/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm-app/conf/

Type # cat -A application-prod.properties

This will show a dollar at the end of the actual line. This will help us check if there is any extra space at the end of the line

Take a backup of the file

# cp application-prod.properties application-prod.properties.bck

# vi application-prod.properties

Remove the extra space at the end of the line from the below line

lcm.depot.adapter.remote.lcmProductVersionCatalogDir=/COMP/SDDC_MANAGER_VCF/lcm/productVersionCatalog $

:wq! to save and close the properties

Restart the LCM service by running the command below

# systemctl restart lcm

Please note: It will take a couple of hours for the depot to sync the new patches and to show up on the Plan Patching