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
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
..sorry..in my situation the port was 88 and not 81
This definitely worked for me! =) Good catch man!!! Thanks Bro!!! Definitely appreciated!!!
As usual a visit down the yellow brick road yields the necessary answer, and provides a fix like that
Cheers.
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.
How do you know what port VirtualCenter is running on?
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/