Downloading Esx metadata, vibs and vendor add-ons - Message: Failed to execute UMDS command: /opt/vmware/vmware-umds/bin/vmware-umds

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager / VCF Installer

Issue/Introduction

Task Downloading Esx metadata, vibs and vendor add-ons fails with the following error message:

Message: Failed to execute UMDS command: /opt/vmware/vmware-umds/bin/vmware-umds -D -m --info-level error --cdb-url https://vcf9-depot.example.com/umds-patch-store/hostupdate/__hostupdate20-consolidated-index__.xml --task-id c60bb900-543f-5dce-bd90-1ebcdbd53ace.

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Environment

VCF 9 SDDC and offline depot with self signed certificate

Cause

The command line tool vmware-umds which is used to download the packages from the offline depot is using the trusted certificates of the operating system.

Resolution

Import the rootCA from the depot web server into the certificate store of the SDDC operating system 

1. upload the rootCA of your depot web server to the SDDC appliance to /tmp using sftp or winscp
2. copy the rootCA.pem to /etc/ssl/certs 

   cp rootCA.pem /etc/ssl/certs/ 

3. rehash the ca certificates 

   /usr/bin/rehash_ca_certificates.sh

4. Retry sync
   1. SDDC Web UI
   2. Lifecycle Management
   3. Binary Management
   4. ESXi Components
   5. Synchronize now