Adding Aria Operations for Logs Ingestion in Cloud Director Fails with java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

Cannot authenticate to log provider 'https://[Aria Operations for Logs Server]:9543'. - I/O error on POST request for "[Aria Operations for Logs Server]:9543/api/v2/sessions": Connection reset; nested exception is java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

Test connection from Cloud Director Cell to Log Insight Server fails with similar error:

curl -k -X POST https://[Log Insight Server]:9543/api/v2/sessions -d '{"username":"#####", "password":"######", "provider":"Local"}'

curl: (35) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer

Environment

Cloud Director 10.6.x

Cause

Port 9543 is not open on Log Insight server for Aria Operations for Logs Ingestion API - TLS (SSL)

Resolution

Follow Port Requirements for Aria Operations for Logs

VMware Aria Operations for Logs Firewall Recommendations

Specifically Open Port 9543/TCP  - VMware Aria Operations for Logs Ingestion API - TLS (SSL)