BDE with vCenter 6 appliance, certificate failed

[JamesStreit]

Hello all,

I'm trying to install BDE for the first time in a lab environment and I'm running into a error.  "Check certificate failed.  Select a correct Serengeti server"

vCenter and hosts are 6.0

vCenter and PSC are on the same VM, the appliance.

BDE vApp installed OK.

vCenter plug-in installed OK.

When I try to connect to a Serengeti server through the vCenter plug-in I get the error "Check certificate failed.  Select a correct Serengeti server"

I've looked on the vCenter and I only have one SSL certificate.  (VMware KB 2050273)

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2050273

/usr/lib/vmidentity/tools/scripts/lstool.py list --url http://localhost:7080/lookupservice/sdk --type vcenterserver > /tmp/psc_services.txt

Here is the information inside the /tmp/psc_services.txt file.

        Name: AboutInfo.vpx.name

        Description: AboutInfo.vpx.name

        Service Product: com.vmware.cis

        Service Type: vcenterserver

        Service ID: 3ff89aa4-1529-48a4-9e6e-6985685c2cb9

        Site ID: default-first-site

        Node ID: c0acf9d5-be2d-47dd-84ef-00e7815f14fd

        Owner ID: [e-mail]

        Version: 6.0

        Endpoints:

                Type: com.vmware.cis.common.resourcebundle

                Protocol: http

                URL: https://vcentername.internaldomain.com:443/catalog/catalog.zip

                SSL trust: MIIDsTCCApmgAwIBAgIJ...

                Endpoint Attributes:

                        com.vmware.cis.common.resourcebundle.basename: cis.vc.action:cis.vc.alarm:cis.vc.auth:cis.vc.cluster:cis.vc.default:cis.vc.enum:cis.vc.evc:cis.vc.event:cis.vc.eventaux:cis.vc.fault:cis.vc.gos:cis.vc.host:cis.vc.locmsg:cis.vc.option:cis.vc.perf:cis.vc.question:cis.vc.stask:cis.vc.task:cis.vc.vm:cis.vc.profile:cis.vc.hostdiag.enum:cis.vc.hostdiag.eventaux:cis.vc.hostdiag.event:cis.vc.hostdiag.locmsg:cis.vc.VirtualCenter.enum:cis.vc.VirtualCenter.eventaux:cis.vc.VirtualCenter.event:cis.vc.VirtualCenter.extension:cis.vc.VirtualCenter.locmsg

                Type: com.vmware.cis.workflow

                Protocol: vapi.json.http

                URL: http://vcentername.internaldomain.com:8088/workflow/vapi

                SSL trust: MIIDsTCCApmgAwIBAgIJ...

                Endpoint Attributes:

                        com.vmware.vapi.metadata.metamodel.file: /etc/vmware/vmware-vpx-workflow/metadata/api/vpx_workflow_metamodel.json

                        com.vmware.vapi.metadata.authentication.file: /etc/vmware/vmware-vpx-workflow/metadata/api/vpx_workflow_authentication.json

                Type: com.vmware.vim

                Protocol: vmomi

                URL: https://vcentername.internaldomain.com:443/sdk

I've also confirmed the SSL setting within the Segengeti management server.

VMware KB: Serengeti Management Server connection fails from VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions 1.x plug-in (Web UI)…

[serengeti@vmwarebde ~]$ sudo /opt/serengeti/sbin/EnableSSOAuth https://vcentername.internaldomain.com:443/lookupservice/sdk

Intializing registration provider...

Getting SSL certificates for https://vcentername.internaldomain.com:443/lookupservice/sdk

Anonymous execution

The file /opt/serengeti/ssotool/ssoData/groupcheck.crt already exists. Overwriting...

The file /opt/serengeti/ssotool/ssoData/admin.crt already exists. Overwriting...

The file /opt/serengeti/ssotool/ssoData/sts.crt already exists. Overwriting...

Successfully saved SSO locations and certificates

Return code is: Success

Prepare the authentication component

SSO Authentication is enabled now. Please restart the Serengeti web server  to complete the procedure by the command 'sudo service tomcat stop/start'.

[serengeti@vmwarebde ~]$ sudo service tomcat stop

Wed Apr 29 18:55:06 UTC 2015 tomcat: Stopping Tomcat

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/serengeti/tomcat6

Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/serengeti/tomcat6

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/serengeti/tomcat6/temp

Using JRE_HOME:        /usr

Using CLASSPATH:       /opt/serengeti/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar

Using CATALINA_PID:    /var/tmp/catalina.pid

Tomcat did not stop in time. PID file was not removed.

Wed Apr 29 18:55:12 UTC 2015 tomcat: Waiting for Tomcat process (4952) to shutdown completely. 9 seconds left.

Wed Apr 29 18:55:15 UTC 2015 tomcat: forcefully removed stale /var/tmp/catalina.pid

Wed Apr 29 18:55:15 UTC 2015 tomcat: Stop ok

[serengeti@vmwarebde ~]$ sudo service tomcat start

Wed Apr 29 18:55:21 UTC 2015 tomcat: Starting Tomcat

Wed Apr 29 18:55:21 UTC 2015 tomcat: no need to remove stale /var/tmp/catalina.pid

Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/serengeti/tomcat6

Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/serengeti/tomcat6

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/serengeti/tomcat6/temp

Using JRE_HOME:        /usr

Using CLASSPATH:       /opt/serengeti/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar

Using CATALINA_PID:    /var/tmp/catalina.pid

[serengeti@vmwarebde ~]$

I'm still having connection errors.  Am I doing something wrong or missed a step?

Thanks

Jim Streit

[JamesStreit]

I was able to resolve my issue by removing all of the BDE components and starting over with BDE version 2.1.0.

I will mention that DNS resolution is very important to getting all of the components to work properly!!!

[Xiaoliangl]

take a look on: VMware vCenter Application Discovery Manager: Works Across Physical and Virtual Infrastructures | United States

if you can bring up all VMs inside a vCenter, BDE can then help to recover the hadoop clusters.

[GuoYue]

HI Buddy:

               I encountered the same problem when installing bde2.3.However, I'm not sure what A record is required to add on DNS server?

               We can't find any BDE documents about DNS description.

[Qing Chi]

Hi JamesStreit,

What is the version of BDE? Did you try deploy the latest version of BDE 2.3.2?

Thanks,

-qing

[GuoYue]

Yes BDE 2.3.2 and HDC5.12 。