Failure when upgrading Aria Operations for Networks via Aria Lifecycle Manager (LCMVRNICONFIG90116)

Products

VCF Operations for Networks

Issue/Introduction

When upgrading Aria Operations for Networks using Aria Lifecyle Manager (LCM), upgrade hangs for about an hour then fails with this messaging:

Error Code: LCMVRNICONFIG90116
Error while checking status of upgrade bundle upload. Please Retry and Check Logs for more detail.
Error while checking status of upgrade bundle upload. Please Retry and Check Logs for more detail.

com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin.core.vrni.common.exception.VRNIUpgradeBundleStatusException: Exception occurred while checking Status of upgrade bundle with IP ##.##.##.##
 at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin.core.vrni.task.upgrade.VRNIUpgradeBundleStatusTask.execute(VRNIUpgradeBundleStatusTask.java:134)
 at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.platform.automata.service.Task.retry(Task.java:158)
 at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.automata.core.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:60)
 at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
 at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

You may also find the following:

Retrying the upgrade does not allow it to succeed.
The file size of the dowloaded upgrade file is smaller than listed on the Broadcom Support Portal downloads page.
The MD5SUM does not match the expected MD5.
- To compare run the following command on the LCM server when logged in as root and compare the result to value listed on the Broadcom Support Portal downloads page:
```
md5sum VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.<version.build>.upgrade.bundle
```

When reviewing the Platform cli.log, the "Bad signature in bundle or bundle tampered" error is found e.g.:

2025-10-17 13:54:55,908.908Z ERROR arkin_logging.py MainThread arkin_logging.py:82 Error decrypt and verify bundle
2025-10-17 13:54:55,908.908Z ERROR arkin_logging.py MainThread arkin_logging.py:82 [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 31077AF7C3F055C3 1 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED B8D2#############################285E 0 [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED B8D2#############################C285E 0 [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_KEY B3B0#############################55C3 B8D2#############################C285E - [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED B8D2#############################C285E 0 [GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_COMPLIANCE_MODE 23 [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_INFO 2 9 0 [GNUPG:] PLAINTEXT 62 1755952034 VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.6.14.1.1755947807.upgrade.tar.gz [GNUPG:] BADMDC [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_FAILED [GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION
2025-10-17 13:54:55,908.908Z ERROR arkin_logging.py MainThread arkin_logging.py:82 gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 3107#######55C3, created 2016-09-04 "vRNI-App (Client side key pair for platform and proxy) <[email protected]>" gpg: block_filter 0x00006208548a57b0: read error (size=8956,a->size=8956) gpg: block_filter 0x00006208548a93a0: read error (size=9416,a->size=9416) gpg: WARNING: encrypted message has been manipulated! gpg: block_filter: pending bytes! gpg: block_filter: pending bytes!
2025-10-17 13:54:55,908.908Z ERROR arkin_logging.py MainThread arkin_logging.py:82 Returning None
2025-10-17 13:54:55,908.908Z ERROR arkin_logging.py MainThread arkin_logging.py:82 Error: Bad signature in bundle or bundle tampered

Environment

Aria Operations for Networks 6.13
Aria Operaitons for Networks 6.14
Aria Operations for Networks 6.14.1

Cause

The upgrade bundle VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.<version.build>.upgrade.tar.gz is corrupt because the download did not complete successfully.

Resolution

Re-download the upgrade bundle and re-try the upgrade.

To confirm that the upgrade bundle file downloaded successfully to the LCM server,

Check the file size on the LCM server matches the file size listed on the Broadcom Support Portal
validate the MD5SUM result against the value listed on the Broadcom Support Portal downloads page using the following command when logged in as root:
```
md5sum VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks.<version.build>.upgrade.bundle
```