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Troubleshooting View Composer

Hello,

I recently tried to update the SSL certificates on my vCenter servers and things really went awful.  The certificate was applied flawless to the web services, however the View Composer Service seems to have completely self-destructed.  when I open up VMware View Adminstrator and look at my dashboard, my vCenter server that I updated the SSL cert on is red along with the same server underneeth the View Composer Servers category.

When I click on the vCenter server under View Composer Servers, I receive the following:

Status: The service is not working properly.

SSL: Unknown

When I click on the vCenter under the vSphere Components->vCenter servers, I receive the following:

Version: 5.0.0

API Version: 5.0

Status: The service is not working properly.

SSL: Unknown

View Composer Server: True

I am running 5.1 on my vCenter servers and when I browse to the server via it's name, the SSL certificate checks out just fine (the browser doesn't complain).  I can successfully login to my vCenter servers via vSphere, no errors either.

Where are the logs for the View Composer server stored?  Does anyone have any guesses on what I have done horribly wrong?

Thanks in advance!

-ToTheCloud

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Linjo
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Is it a selfgenerated cert?

In that case the View connection server probably does not trust it yet.

Have a look in the View Connection logs to verify that.

// Linjo

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ToTheCloud
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I am using a certificate that I generated via openssl, but signed with my internal ca.  I followed this guide when generating and replacing my certificates: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsp_51_vcserver_esxi_certificates.pdf

Here are my log files for view composer:

vmware-sviconfig.log

------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
2012-12-05 09:20:22,856 | INFO  | SimConfig.Operation.OdbcManager - Current driver:sqlncli10.dll
2012-12-05 09:20:22,902 | INFO  | SimConfig.Operation.OdbcManager - Current driver:sqlncli10.dll
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
2012-12-05 09:20:56,880 | INFO  | SimConfig.Operation.OperationHelper - Error code 2
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
------------SviConfig Log Start-----------
------------SviConfig Log End-------------
vmware-viewcomposer.log
------------Sim Web Service Log Start-----------
Build: 691993
Os Type: win64-x64
API Version: 3.0
Product Version: 3.0.0.5518
2012-12-05 09:21:16,927 | 6             | INFO  | Sim.WebService.SimServer - SVI service is starting.
2012-12-05 09:21:37,067 | 7             | INFO  | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaSubsystem - UfaSubsystem: contructed with threads: 5, retry no: 1, timeout: 2100000
2012-12-05 09:21:37,192 | 7             | INFO  | ServiceCore.WorkflowEngine.WorkflowEngine - Max concurrent tasks is -1. Max VC tasks is -1.  Max UFA tasks is 10. The number of work threads is 20.
2012-12-05 09:21:37,707 | 7             | INFO  | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - PerformInitialCleanup: start performing initial cleanup.
2012-12-05 09:21:38,066 | 7             | INFO  | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - PerformInitialCleanup: no incomplete task needs to be cleaned up.
2012-12-05 09:21:40,733 | 6             | INFO  | Sim.WebService.SimServer - SVI service started successfully.
2012-12-05 09:22:15,210 | 6             | INFO  | Sim.WebService.SimServer - SVI service shutdown is in progress.
2012-12-05 09:22:17,581 | 6             | INFO  | Sim.WebService.SimServer - SVI service was shut down successfully.
------------Sim Web Service Log End-------------
------------Sim Web Service Log Start-----------
Build: 691993
Os Type: win64-x64
API Version: 3.0
Product Version: 3.0.0.5518
2012-12-05 09:23:35,415 | 6             | INFO  | Sim.WebService.SimServer - SVI service is starting.
2012-12-05 09:24:01,576 | 7             | INFO  | CommonLib.UfaSubsystem.UfaSubsystem - UfaSubsystem: contructed with threads: 5, retry no: 1, timeout: 2100000
2012-12-05 09:24:01,685 | 7             | INFO  | ServiceCore.WorkflowEngine.WorkflowEngine - Max concurrent tasks is -1. Max VC tasks is -1.  Max UFA tasks is 10. The number of work threads is 20.
2012-12-05 09:24:02,309 | 7             | INFO  | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - PerformInitialCleanup: start performing initial cleanup.
2012-12-05 09:24:02,496 | 7             | INFO  | Sim.ServiceCore.SimServiceApiImpl - PerformInitialCleanup: no incomplete task needs to be cleaned up.
2012-12-05 09:24:04,680 | 6             | INFO  | Sim.WebService.SimServer - SVI service started successfully.

vmware-viewcomposer-audit.log

------------Sim Audit Log Start-----------

------------Sim Audit Log End-------------

What's interesting is if I point my web browser to https://myvcenter:18443 I receive a page with the following (just as a side note, the ssl certificate shows up trusted in my browser :P):

Not Found


HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.

Is that normal?

Thanks!

-ToTheCloud

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