vCO 5.5.2.1951762 getting connection refused when adding a vCenter

[sharptonm]

I am hoping someone can help here.  We have two seperate vCO servers which use the same vCenter.  Both of them are having issues connecting to the same vCenter.  If I try another vCenter, there is no issue.  This should remove vCO from the equation and prove that something is going on with this vCenter.  We have updated it vCenter 5.5 Update 2 about two weeks ago and have not had any issues until yesterday.  I am wondering if this is the cause and if anyone else has seen this issue?

Even stranger is, I am able to pull a license from this same vCenter, which should use the same SOAP WS.

Connectivity to the vCenter API is confirmed and the DNS name resolves. I am able to pull down this wsdl with wget on the vCO server.

sdk/vimService.wsdl

This is logged in the vCO admin page under the vCenter.

Exception, 'java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused'

I see this in the logs on the vCO appliance configuration cataliana.out.

com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.exception.ConnectionException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.ResponseImpl.setError(ResponseImpl.java:224)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:131)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpProtocolBindingImpl.send(HttpProtocolBindingImpl.java:98)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.sendCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:533)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.executeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:514)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.completeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:302)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invokeFetch(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:294)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:165)

        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy62.getContent(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.config.VlsiHelper.getServiceInstanceContent(VlsiHelper.java:294)

        at com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.config.VlsiHelper.login(VlsiHelper.java:223)

        at com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.config.VlsiHelper.<init>(VlsiHelper.java:159)

        at com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.config.ConnectionTester.call(ConnectionTester.java:117)

        at com.vmware.vmo.plugin.vi4.config.ConnectionTester.call(ConnectionTester.java:18)

        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)

        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)

        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)

        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

        at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)

        at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)

        at org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainSocketFactory.java:117)

        at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:177)

        at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.open(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:304)

        at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryConnect(DefaultRequestDirector.java:611)

        at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:446)

        at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.doExecute(AbstractHttpClient.java:863)

        at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82)

        at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:111)

        ... 16 more

[kharding]

Hi,

I am getting exactly the same error.

This is a fresh vCenter and Orchestrator configuration, Installed from the same 5.5 update 2b installation ISO.

Did you manage to get this fixed or find the root cause of it?

Thanks

[sharptonm · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I meant to come back and post what I found on this.  I got this fixed.  vCO uses not only TCP/443, but also TCP/80.  Our vCenter that was failing had it's http port set to TCP/81.  This was most likely due to a conflict at install time.  The person installing vCenter took a short cut and changed the port.  This is all fine until you get to where I was.  Make sure you are using standard ports in vCenter, then try again.  This is what was causing my issue, and was the source of "Connection refused" on TCP/80.  I was about to start tcpdump to find out what was going on before this was found.  Let me know and good luck.

Mike