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.)
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This was great information and identified/resolved the issue directly. Thanks for posting.
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.
Great, thx!
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