Vcenter troubleshooting

[guaro5555]

Hi gurus

More help needed

1) When I open Vcenter web client I get the following errors

                  a) client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory service ( attachment)

                  b) Unable to create the managed object (attachment)

  I have tried the following

     a) Restart the Inventory Service (no avail)

     b) Restart the Vcenter server (no avail)

     c)  Vmware KB 2033620 ( no avail and some errors)

           1) error

                  "Using C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Inventory Service

                  VMware vCenter Inventory Service

                  Inventory Service already stopped.

                  Intializing registration provider...

                  Getting SSL certificates for https://server FQDN:XXXX/lookupservice/sdk

          Unexpected status code: 404

          Unexpected status code: 404

          Return code is: ServiceNotResponding

          2

          Error 2 registering with https://serverFQDN:XXXX/lookupservice/sdk. Cannot continue.

          2"

  so at this point I need some serious help to get this fix

     1) how do I go and check if the sso instance is on my local machine ( i did not setup this Vcenter) but there has to be a way to find this out, if the          instance is local or where is it pointing to.

      2) what else could be happening with this two errors and if someone has an idea.

Thanks a bunch gurus

           

[crawfordm]

Which version of vCenter ? 5.1 or 5.5

1) look for the vCenter Signle Sign On services in the local machine servers.  If you see it, that means that SSO is installed on that machine

[guaro5555]

C.

  Thanks a bunch for jumping in , I have Vcenter 5.5

   as you can tell by my previous post I am very new to VMware , so thanks for battling with me here

C. I have checked and I could not find the  MS single sign on services on this , the closest one is VMware secure token services and I dont think you meant that one.

so what is my next step to resolved this insane issue. I am about to shoot myself.

Thanks a bunch chief

[crawfordm]

For vSphere 5.5 Secure Token Service is part of the SSO.   Here is an example of services from my 5.5 vCenter lab server.  Which services do you have on your vCenter?

[guaro5555]

C.

I would be cool if I can copy and paste like you did, how can I do  that so I can send  the info you are helping me with.

Thanks again

[crawfordm]

I just inserted an image in my reply.  I did not copy and paste.  Don't attach the files to your post, just insert them.

[guaro5555]

C, so far it seems like we have the sames services, so what am I doing wrong

   Thanks chief for helping out

[guaro5555]

Hi C.

also I have the following problem

I cant login into vsphere client using the administrator@vsphere.local account, it gives me the following

   sso.fault.nopermission.summary

This is bad , isn't it?

[suresh1180]

Hello,

This issue occurs because permissions for group names are case sensitive in vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) 5.5GA, but not case sensitive in vCenter Server 5.0

Please refer to the below link for further information

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=205963...

[guaro5555]

S.

Thanks for jumping in to battle.

  on my last post, I was trying to explain , that for some reason , I cant login using Vsphere client using the vsphere local admin username, it tells me

   " sso.fault.nopermission.summary"

  but I can login on vsphere web client with the vsphere.local username but then I cant do anything as the "client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory service" error comes up.

how can I fix the sso... error so I can do the workaround and fix this problem.

Thanks a bunch for the help

[ikiris]

Did you ever get this figured out?

[guaro555]

IKIRI

Yes and unfortunate I had to re-install sso  all together.