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VUM: Metadata for patch missing

Duncan Epping · Mar 13, 2008 ·

Today I received the following error at a customer site when applying patch via the Update Manager:”Metadata for patch missing.” After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter wasn’t running on port 80 but on 81 for some reason. Opening up the ESX Firewall and restarting the VMware Update Manager service seems to fix this problem. The firewall was opened up as follows

esxcfg-firewall –openport 81,tcp,out,updatemanager

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  1. Alan says

    14 March, 2008 at 07:54

    Hi
    i had the same problem few weeks ago…and solved in the same way.
    that was documented on vmtn..some other users seems to have the same problem.
    bye

  2. Alan says

    14 March, 2008 at 08:03

    ..sorry..in my situation the port was 88 and not 81

  3. Drewcifer says

    21 May, 2008 at 03:48

    This definitely worked for me! =) Good catch man!!! Thanks Bro!!! Definitely appreciated!!!

  4. David says

    22 July, 2008 at 09:52

    As usual a visit down the yellow brick road yields the necessary answer, and provides a fix like that

    Cheers.

  5. Ratgen says

    30 September, 2008 at 10:20

    In had the exact same problem. However, in my case, it wasnt the port that had changed, but just the service that needed to be restarted.

  6. Obie says

    2 April, 2009 at 15:49

    How do you know what port VirtualCenter is running on?

  7. Duncan says

    2 April, 2009 at 17:02

    Jason Boche posted a great diagram that illustrates post usage:
    http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2008/12/12/new-vmware-vi-network-port-diagram-request-for-comments/

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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