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addyvandendoel
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vma update not working

Hi,

I installed vma4.1 new, on my vsphere 4.1 environment.

I added my servers without a problem (great manual!).

The problem starts when I want to run the update command.

Here is what I do:

vi-admin@vma41 vma$ sudo vima-update info

Password:

Encountered error MetadataDownloadError:

The error data is:

Url -

VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip

Localfile - /var/tmp/esxupdate/metadata-2760350473111833260/metadata.zip

Message - IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed

out')>

Errno - 4

Description - Failed to download metadata.

to test my connection:

vi-admin@vma41 vma$ ping www.vmware.com

PING e508.g.akamaiedge.net (88.221.34.52) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from a88-221-34-52.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (88.221.34.52): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=6.87 ms

No problem there. When I copy the URL in a browsers, it works.

How to fix this?

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lamw
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Are you 100% sure you can proxy out to the internet to access VMware's website?

You can use vima-update, but it actually is a symlink to vma-update.

Here is what it should look like:

[vi-admin@kate ~]$ sudo vma-update info
vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip                                   ####################################################################################### [100%]

Another way you could verify, is since you know the URL, you can use hand wget to see if you can manually download. If you can not, it means you can not access the internet, whether you don't have a proxy setup or its blocked in general which you need to get resolved.

[vi-admin@kate ~]$ wget http://www.vmware.com/go/vma41/updatevmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip
--08:45:13--  http://www.vmware.com/go/vma41/updatevmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip
Resolving www.vmware.com. 184.85.50.52
Connecting to www.vmware.com|184.85.50.52|:80. connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/vmw/vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip [following]
--08:45:13--  http://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/vmw/vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip
Resolving hostupdate.vmware.com... 184.85.52.7
Connecting to hostupdate.vmware.com|184.85.52.7|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2110 (2.1K) [application/zip]
Saving to: `vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip'

100%[====================================================================================================================>] 2,110       --.-K/s   in 0s

08:45:13 (252 MB/s) - `vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip' saved [2110/2110]

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009,2010

VMware scripts and resources at:

Twitter: @lamw

Getting Started with the vMA (tips/tricks)

Getting Started with the vSphere SDK for Perl

VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

VMware Developer Community

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lamw
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Are you 100% sure you can proxy out to the internet to access VMware's website?

You can use vima-update, but it actually is a symlink to vma-update.

Here is what it should look like:

[vi-admin@kate ~]$ sudo vma-update info
vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip                                   ####################################################################################### [100%]

Another way you could verify, is since you know the URL, you can use hand wget to see if you can manually download. If you can not, it means you can not access the internet, whether you don't have a proxy setup or its blocked in general which you need to get resolved.

[vi-admin@kate ~]$ wget http://www.vmware.com/go/vma41/updatevmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip
--08:45:13--  http://www.vmware.com/go/vma41/updatevmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip
Resolving www.vmware.com. 184.85.50.52
Connecting to www.vmware.com|184.85.50.52|:80. connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/vmw/vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip [following]
--08:45:13--  http://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/vmw/vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip
Resolving hostupdate.vmware.com... 184.85.52.7
Connecting to hostupdate.vmware.com|184.85.52.7|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2110 (2.1K) [application/zip]
Saving to: `vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip'

100%[====================================================================================================================>] 2,110       --.-K/s   in 0s

08:45:13 (252 MB/s) - `vmw-VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip' saved [2110/2110]

=========================================================================

William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009,2010

VMware scripts and resources at:

Twitter: @lamw

Getting Started with the vMA (tips/tricks)

Getting Started with the vSphere SDK for Perl

VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

VMware Developer Community

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addyvandendoel
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ah, man!, I feel so stupid now. I had my self fouled with the ping. Our vma/vcenter servers are a little more secured as before now. No proxy, just no http port open in the firewall protecting the server.

Thanks!

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Thanks man,

$ sudo vma-update info

Encountered error MetadataDownloadError:

The error data is:

Url - http://www.vmware.com/go/vma41/updatevmw-

VIMA-4.1.0-metadata.zip

Localfile - /var/tmp/esxupdate/metadata-2760350473111833260/metadata.zip

Message - HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required

Errno - 4

Description - Failed to download metadata.

$

where and how to specify the credentials for the proxy ?

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