Error code LCMVRNICONFIG90044 while deploying or upgrading VCF Operations for Networks

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• While deploying or upgrading VCF Operations for Networks 9.1, the job fails on the Install components using SDDC lifecycle services sub-task with the following error: Unable to register components with VCF Operations.
• Checking the Management Tasks tab shows the request failure with error code: LCMVRNICONFIG90044 : Error occurred while fetching Auth Token from VCF Ops Networks. This could be either due to no proper response or no connection established to VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• The following error appears in the /storage/vcops/log/component-manager-plugin-UUID.log :
  

  2026-05-27T02:55:52.115Z ERROR component-manager-plugin 25550 [ops@4413 threadId="252237" threadName="ServerConnection on port 10000 Thread 26" operationId="XeIjGCIc3TiEyMwMIAt2hwSXiGFdC5LK"] [com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.locker.util.AccountInfoService.getTokenNI] - Exception occurred while invoking password API.
  java.io.IOException: Unable to tunnel through proxy. Proxy returns "HTTP/1.1 407 Proxy Authentication Required"

• The VCF Operations for Networks component is incorrectly displaying under the components list in VCF Operations, even though its deployment was unsuccessful. It may show that the version is 9.0.x or 9.1.x.

Environment

• VCF Operations 9.1
• VCF Operations for Networks 9.x

Cause

VCF operations network proxy is unable to process the password API

Resolution

To resolve this Issue, follow below steps on the VCF Operations UI:

1. Go to Operate -> Administration -> Global settings -> Network settings and delete the proxy configuration.
2. Go to Operate tab on the top -> Administration -> Control Panel -> Management Task -> pick the latest Configure Component task for NI and perform a retry 
3. Log out and back in to the VCF Operations UI

Note: If the issue is not resolved after retrying the latest Configure Component task, look for other failed Configure Component tasks and retry them as well.

Additional Information

If Operations for Networks is deployed successfully, but the Flows page in Operations shows as not configured, and the checkbox in the VCF Adapter settings to enable Operations for Networks is unavailable, perform the following steps:

1. Clean the deployment using  Scripted components cleanup from VCF Operations 9.1.
2. Redeploy with proxy settings disabled from the start.

Note: If the VCF Operations for Networks instance was upgraded, this will result in the loss of all historical data.