Error: 'Invalid credentials provided for the control plane' during Kubernetes Adapter configuration in Aria Operations

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• The following FAIL message is present in /storage/log/vcops/log/web.log
  

  2026-05-15T10:16:54,087+0000 INFO  [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8009-exec-557] com.vmware.vcops.ui.util.PreResultInterceptor.processErrors - Url: /ui/solution.action
    vRealize Operations Controller-############.PlatformServer.testMonitoring - May 15 12:16:28:459 - 1472ms.
      AuthorizationCheckerImpl.checkIfUserHasPrivileges - May 15 12:16:28:459 - 1ms.
      Execute(ControllerInterface.testMonitoring) - May 15 12:16:28:460 - 1471ms.
          xxxxxxxxx..vRealize Operations Controller-############.ControllerServer.testMonitoring - May 15 12:16:28:460 - 1471ms.
              FAIL: Invalid credentials provided for the control plane - May 15 12:16:29:931 - 0ms.

• When attempting to configure the Kubernetes Adapter the following error is displayed:
  

Environment

VMware Aria Operations 8.18.6

Cause

This issue occurs due to a certificate mismatch between the Aria Operations integration configuration and the target control plane Kubeconfig file.

Resolution

1. Log in to the VMware Aria Operations user interface.
2. Navigate to the Integrations configuration section.
3. Open the configuration for the failing integration.
4. Review the currently configured certificate.
5. Open the target control plane's kubeconfig file.
6. Compare the certificate string in the Aria Operations integration section with the certificate data within the kubeconfig file.
7. Update the Aria Operations integration with the correct certificate data extracted directly from the kubeconfig file.
8. Save the configuration and validate the connection.