VCenter 7 Connect stucks at Sending Login request

[krappi01]

Expected Behavior

Module should connect to VCenter and import all the stuff

Current Behavior

No data is loaded from VCenter and icingacli vspheredb daemon run --debug --trace shows as last entry:
debug: [api stsddf-vcenter01.example.com (id=5)] Sending Login request to https://stsddf-vcenter01.example.com/sdk
In a browser the /sdk endpoint from VCenter answers with HTTP 404 not found, other endpoints like /sdk/vimService.wsdl work.
It seems that the url is incomplete.

When connecting directly to ESX host, it works, but /icingaweb2/vspheredb/configuration/servers shows the following error message:
Got no connection information. Is the Damon running?
The exception message from ConfigurationController.php:106 is:
Promise rejected with unexpected value of type TypeError

Your Environment

• VMware vCenter®/ESXi™-Version: 7.0.3 Build 18901211
• Version/GIT-Hash of this module: 1.2.1
• Icinga Web 2 version: 2.9.5
• Operating System and version: CentOS 8
• Webserver, PHP versions: 8.0.14

[Thomas-Gelf]

Please stop the daemon...

systemctl stop icinga-vspheredb.service

...switch to it's user...

su - icingavspheredb -s /bin/bash

...and start the daemon with debug level in the foreground:

icingacli vspheredb daemon run --debug

Please share the (anonymized) output.

[Thomas-Gelf]

NB: 404 for /sdk is fine. Your browser doesn't send a valid SOAP request, and that's why the VCenter gives you a 404

[krappi01]

Hi, here is the output:

_PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function translate() on null in /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/functions.php:35
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/Config.php(328): t()
#1 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/Config.php(397): Icinga\Application\Config::fromIni()
#2 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/ApplicationBootstrap.php(589): Icinga\Application\Config::app()
#3 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/Cli.php(42): Icinga\Application\ApplicationBootstrap->loadConfig()
#4 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/ApplicationBootstrap.php(416): Icinga\Application\Cli->bootstrap()
#5 /usr/bin/icingacli(7): Icinga\Application\ApplicationBootstrap::start()
#6 {main}
thrown in /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/functions.php on line 35

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function translate() on null in /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/functions.php:35
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/Config.php(328): t()
#1 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/Config.php(397): Icinga\Application\Config::fromIni()
#2 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/ApplicationBootstrap.php(589): Icinga\Application\Config::app()
#3 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/Cli.php(42): Icinga\Application\ApplicationBootstrap->loadConfig()
#4 /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/ApplicationBootstrap.php(416): Icinga\Application\Cli->bootstrap()
#5 /usr/bin/icingacli(7): Icinga\Application\ApplicationBootstrap::start()
#6 {main}
thrown in /usr/share/php/Icinga/Application/functions.php on line 35_

Are we missing a PHP module?

[krappi01]

Oh, it was a permission issue.
Changing the permissions solved it:
chown -R apache:icingaweb2 /etc/icingaweb2/
Thanks!

[krappi01]

The PHP error messages are away now, but it still stucks at:
Sending Login request to...

[Thomas-Gelf]

Please show the FULL (anonymized) log output. In addition please share your Incubator module version and double-check your credentials.

[krappi01]

When using the administrator@vsphere.local credentials instead of root everything works fine.
Thanks!

[Thomas-Gelf]

You're welcome!