Error: "No healthy upstream" when accessing Images under Updates tab in Lifecycle Manager

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• No healthy upstream message is displayed when accessing Images under Updates tab in Lifecycle Manager 
• 
• In  /var/log/vmware/vmon/vmon.log a message can be seen

  Er(02) host-26635 Startup type of service rbd is AUTOMATIC while startup type of dependent service updatemgr is MANUAL.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 8.X

VMware vCenter Server 7.X

Cause

• Start type of service updatemgr is set to manual

Resolution

1. Run below command to confirm Startype 

   vmon-cli -s updatemgr

   Output example as below 

   # vmon-cli -s updatemgr
   
   Name: updatemgr
   
   Starttype: MANUAL
   
   RunState: STOPPED
   
   RunAsUser: updatemgr
   
   CurrentRunStateDuration(ms): 603430778
   
   HealthState: UNHEALTHY
   
   FailStop: FALSE
   
   MainProcessId: N/A

2. Set the service to Automatic with below command 

   vmon-cli -U updatemgr -S AUTOMATIC

3. Start vmware-updatemgr 

   service-control --start vmware-updatemgr