Aria Automation deployments failing with error "Missing input object (TelException)".

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Deployments in Aria Automation which reference one input value in another input definition can fail with error "Missing input object (TelException)".

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18.x

Cause

In the input section of a deployment template, you cannot reference to other input properties as they are not available at runtime.

This explains the error message "Missing input object".

Example code which will produce this error:

inputs:
  String1:
    type: string
    title: String 1
    default: ${input.String2}
  String2:
    type: string
    title: String 2
    default: "my string"

 

Resolution

Ensure that any defined inputs do not reference other inputs in the template's YAML code.