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priyathamkhaspa
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appliance manager service issue in vCenter appliance

I have installed vCenter6.7 on ESXi 6.7 host. In the vCenter appliance I'm seeing the below log message continuously in /var/log/vmware/messages log file.

2020-07-15T08:20:01.112590-07:00 glhc-vcsa sshd 39441 - - pam_mgmt_cli(sshd:auth): authentication successful, but failed to connect to applmgmt service (254):

2020-07-15T08:20:01.029120-07:00 glhc-vcsa cli - - - vmware.vherd.linux_cli.cli Error getting authentication cookie from applmgmt service. Verify that the applmgmt service is running and that the method requested to obtain the cookie requires authentication.

However when I login into the vCenter appliance and check the status of applmgmt service it is showing as running. However I have started restarting the service and still the issue is not solved.

How to resolve this issue?

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nachogonzalez
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Hey, hope you are doing fine

Are you able to log in to the VAMI? (HTTPS://VCSAFQDN:5480)
if yes please check the health page and post a screenshot.

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harry89
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This mostly occurs if you have some external party such as monitoring solutions which try to login to VC with root and have password error or login failure .

Do "grep -c "Failed password for root"

for var/log/vmware/messages .

You should be able to find the IP from where this failures are occurring .

This error doesn't has or indicate any production impact though

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