Update Manager: Metadata for patch missing
April 1st, 2008
Filed under: VMware
Today I noticed the following error at a customer site when I wanted to install the new patch bundle, ”Metadata for patch missing”. After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter was installed with a different http port number. For VMware Update Manager to work you will have to open up the firewall manually:
esxcfg-firewall -o 81,tcp,out,UpdateManager
(Change the port number, in red, according to the used portnumber for VirtualCenter.)
April 2nd, 2008 at 14:15
This was great information and identified/resolved the issue directly. Thanks for posting.
April 8th, 2008 at 14:59
Thanxs!
I changed the web port back to 80, wasn’t in use. Don’t know why this was.
After that restart VC service and the Update Manager service and it works again.