So this is a fault we've been coming up against over and over, and we don't know the cause.
With have a few vRO setups, but it only happens on one of them (7.4.0)
Problem
- we are happily connected to a vCenter, but for no obvious reason, a user will suddenly lose access to it (but not other users)
Symptoms
- The symptom being when running a workflow through vSphere, it does not autopopulate the VM (as vRO cannot login to vCenter with that user's credentials)
- When that user views the plugin inventory for vCenter, instead of being able to browse the whole tree, we see:
https://<vCenter-address>:443/sdk (unusable: .lang.RuntimeException: (vim.fault.InvalidLogin) { faultCause = null, faultMessage = null }) - A Similar exception appears in the logs... everywhere!
Current Workaround
- Get the user that is having problems to run the "Update a vCenter Server instance" workflow, and refresh the inventory, and now it is working again... until next time
The current workaround is tiresome and not what we want to be doing forever.
Does anyone have any thoughts as to why this happens and how we can stop it from happening?
p.s. the log error that appears is as follows (every 40s or so):
2018-11-01 12:09:29.622+0000 [taskScheduler-6] INFO {} [SessionWrapper] creating server session for Administrator@<DOMAIN>@<VCENTER-SERVER> SDK
2018-11-01 12:09:29.650+0000 [taskScheduler-6] INFO {} [SamlTokenImpl] SAML token for SubjectNameId [value=Administrator@<DOMAIN>, format=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/UPN] successfully parsed from XML
2018-11-01 12:09:36.705+0000 [taskScheduler-8] ERROR {} [SessionWrapper] Error occurred when constructing host session for: Administrator@<DOMAIN>@<VCENTER-SERVER>
SDK java.lang.RuntimeException: (vim.fault.InvalidLogin) {
faultCause = null,
faultMessage = null
}
at com.google.common.base.Throwables.propagate(Throwables.java:240)
at com.vmware.o11n.plugin.vsphere.connect.CommonInvocationHandler.invokeTarget(CommonInvocationHandler.java:146)
...
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: (vim.fault.InvalidLogin) { faultCause = null, faultMessage = null }
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor428.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.core.types.impl.ComplexTypeImpl.newInstance(ComplexTypeImpl.java:174)
...
