Unable to manage certificates or passwords under the VCF Instances tab in VCF Operations 9.0 Admin UI

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• There is no information in the VCF Operations UI under Fleet Management --> Passwords --> VCF Instances or under Fleet Management --> Certificates --> VCF Instances:

• The VCF Management tab is fully functional.
• This issue prevents NSX password rotation, which leads to "Password Expired" critical alarms.

Environment

VCF 9.0 GA
VCF Operations 9.0
VCF Operations 9.0.1

Cause

If you utilize a vCenter Server license that does not have an expiry date you will experience this issue.

Resolution

• To manage certificates of VCF Instance components (SDDC Manager, NSX, vCenter and ESX), you can use the SDDC Manager UI and/or APIs. See  Managing Certificates in VMware Cloud Foundation

The SDDC Manager public APIs can be used to managed manage certificates for SDDC Manager, NSX, vCenter and  ESX components. See API Documentation

Follow KB to restore Missing certificates and passwords in VCF Operation UI

• To manage passwords of VCF Instance components (SDDC Manager, NSX, vCenter and ESX), you can use SDDC Manager UI. See below operations that are supported by VCF OPs that can be performed from SDDC Manager UI:
  • View Accounts
  • Update Passwords
  • Remediate Passwords

Additional Information

This issue will be fixed in the VCF 9.0.1 and higher releases.

If you still see this issue in VCF 9.0.1 and higher, where Management VC is visible and Workload VC is missing (for example), follow KBs below to attempt to resolve:

Data collection is not starting in VCF Operations after importing an environment as a Workload Domain in VMware Cloud Foundation

Not seeing certificates anymore in the UI within Fleet Management