Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Problems using the vCenter Web Client

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I was doing some upgrades in my lab and ran in to an issue. Whenever I started the vCenter Web Client I got a message that the vCenter Inventory Service wasn’t running. I looked at my Services section in Windows 2008 and found that it wasn’t started. Starting it gave me a new error: 1067. This is very generic but I figured I would google it anyway. That actually brought me to our own documentation, yes I should check that first next time, and it mentioned I could reset the inventory service as follows:

  • Stop the service (was already stopped)
  • Delete the entire contents of the Inventory_Service_Directory/data directory
  • Change directory to Inventory_Service_directory/scripts
  • Run the createDB.bat command, with no arguments, to reset the vCenter Inventory Service database
  • Run the register.bat command to update the stored configuration information of the Inventory Service
    register.bat vcenter-tm01.testlab.local 443
  • Restart the vCenter Inventory Service

I also had to re-register the Web Client to vCenter Server. This is what I had to do:

  • admin-cmd.bat register https://vcenter-tm01.testlab.local:9443/vsphere-client https://vcenter-tm01.testlab.local administrator password
Hope it helps,

 

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  1. Hi Duncan,
    I got the same problem with teh Inventory Service, but for me these workaround doesn´t work.
    After running the “register.bat” the script show these “error” ->

    java.io.IOException: failed to decrypt safe contents entry: javax.crypto.BadPadd
    ingException: Given final block not properly padded
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.pkcs12.PKCS12KeyStore.engineLoad(PKCS12KeySt
    ore.java:1277)
    at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1185)
    at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.provider.util.KeyStoreUtil.loadKeyStore(K
    eyStoreUtil.java:53)
    at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.provider.util.SetupLocalService.connectVc
    (SetupLocalService.java:117)
    at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.provider.util.SetupLocalService.setupWith
    RunningVpxd(SetupLocalService.java:167)
    at com.vmware.vim.dataservices.provider.util.SetupLocalService.main(Setu
    pLocalService.java:453)
    Caused by: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padd ed
    at com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE_f.b(DashoA13*..)
    at com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE_f.b(DashoA13*..)
    at com.sun.crypto.provider.PKCS12PBECipherCore.b(DashoA13*..)
    at com.sun.crypto.provider.PKCS12PBECipherCore$PBEWithSHA1AndRC2_40.engi
    neDoFinal(DashoA13*..)
    at javax.crypto.Cipher.doFinal(DashoA13*..)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.pkcs12.PKCS12KeyStore.engineLoad(PKCS12KeySt
    ore.java:1274)
    … 5 more
    EXECUTION FAILED

    —-
    any idea ?

    thanks