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970170
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Update Manager not downloading all files?

Hi,

My UMDS is configured as follows:

vmware-umds -S --disable-host --disable-va

vmware-umds -S -e embeddedEsx-5.0.0 embeddedEsx-5.1.0

vmware-umds -D

So I expect to only get host updates for ESXi 5.x.

In the umds\hostupdate\vmw directory, I only have these files:

__hostupdate20-consolidated-metadata-index__.xml

vmw-ESX-4.1.0-notification.zip

vmw-ESXi-4.1.0-notification.zip

vmw-ESXi-5.0.0-metadata.zip

vmw-ESXi-5.0.0-notification.zip

vmw-ESXi-5.1.0-notification.zip

4 Questions:

1)  Why is it downloading 4.x files?

2)  The files are being exported into shared repository.  However other UM clients are looking for a file called vmw-ESXi-5.1.0-metadata.zip, which does not exist, which makes the patch update fail in vCenter ("Cannot download patch definitions").  Is this file supposed to exist?

3)  Does your vmw directory have this file?

4)  When I run vmware-umds -D, I see a bunch of errors where there are timeouts downloading certain files, is this normal?

Thanks!!!  Any help is appreciated.

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calypsocraig625
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Ahoy hoy,

What version of UMDS are you running?

What is the output when you run vmware-umds -G  ?

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970170
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5.1.  Can you do me a favor, if you are running UMDS, can you look inside your hostupdate\vmw directory and tell me if you see a vmw-ESXi-5.1.0-metadata.zip file?

Thanks

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mediumrare
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I don't have a 5.1.0-medata zip, too.

AFAIK there are no patches for 5.1.0 yet - no patches, no metadata.

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970170
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Good, that's what I thought.   So do you get errors too when your vCenter tries to update patch definitions?

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mediumrare
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Errors? Yes.

At the moment UMDS is complaining about 2 cisco-vem-.....vib files. This was recently mentioned in the forums. But as I don't export the files I don't care about (the download location is inside my wwwroot Smiley Wink ).

Unfortunately I did not keep a log from the initial download but the last line:

"Downloaded 0 updates, 0 VA upgrade files, download size: 2682 MB."

:smileylaugh:

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970170
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hmm yes i am exporting, and my hosts get errors because it seems to be looking for metadata files that are not there.  ok i will wait it out, thanks for your help!

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