I have a situation where vCenter Link Mode is broken after inventory database reset. I have vCenter 6.7 & VxBlock System 740 w/ VMAX 200K
A bit of background, originally the '/dev/sda3' on Vplex Appliance was 100% out of space for my 'vcenter1' so I followed https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2149278.
The inventory service didn't start post reboot / DB truncate. So I downloaded the script from https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2119422 and did a full reset of the inventory db on my vcenter1.
The inventory service still did not start after inventory service reset. I then did a password reset per https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146224
After this the inventory service started but the visibility of the Link Mode broke and logging in vc webclient for 'vcenter1' is only showing the 2 other VCs in my environment.
The inventory for 'vcenter1' is not visible from any web based connection. When connecting with fat client directly to 'vcenter1' the inventory is visible without any content from the 2 other VCs.
From https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2113435 I see that key below is included the inventory DB and is responsible for showing the inventory of the linked VC.
com.vmware.cis.cls urn:cis.cls:
There is no replication issues found across the 6 PSCs. I've looked through the logs for the 6 PSCs and the 3 vCenters but cannot find anything.
Is there is a way to re-create the data provider entry to re-establish link mode access from the web client GUI?
any help appreciated.
