Hello everyone,
During a reboot of my vCenter 5.5 VM (appliance version), an attempt was made to renew the certificates (certificate automatically generated during installation). However, for some unknown reason, this did not work, and since then, the vCenter part no longer starts, and I no longer have access to the administration interface with the vSphere client or in web mode.
I know I have an old version, but I am in the process of migrating to the latest version. In the meantime, I need to keep the infrastructure operational.
Error:
Starting VMware Inventory Service...Waiting for VMware Inventory Service......................
VMware Inventory Service started.
<notice -- Nov 27 18:20:28.50921000> 'vmware-inventoryservice start' exits with status 0
<notice -- Nov 27 18:20:28.51519000> vmware-logbrowser start
Intializing registration provider...
Getting SSL certificates for https://vcenter.my.domain:7444/lookupservice/sdk
Cannot authenticate user
Return code is: InvalidCredentials
Starting VMware Log Browser: success
<notice -- Nov 27 18:20:36.536554000>
'vmware-logbrowser start' exits with status 0
<notice -- Nov 27 18:20:36.537207000> vmware-vpxd start
Waiting for the embedded database to start up: success
Verifying EULA acceptance: success
Executing pre-startup scripts...
Checking and stopping Inventory Service
Stopping VMware Inventory Service...
Waiting for VMware Inventory Service to exit...
Stopped VMware Inventory Service.
Updating Lookup Service location for Inventory Service
Updating vCenter Inventory Service configuration
Starting VMware Inventory Service...Waiting for VMware Inventory Service............
VMware Inventory Service started.
InventoryService ready after 0 seconds.
Registering vCenter Server Inventory Service... Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xms16M -Xmx128M
failed
Please, restart vmware-vpxd to enable the Inventory Service.
Updating the vCenter endpoint in the Lookup Service.
Intializing registration provider...
Getting SSL certificates for https://vcenter.my.domain:7444/lookupservice/sdk
Cannot authenticate user
Return code is: InvalidCredentials
<notice -- Nov 27 18:21:02.61451000> checkproc: /usr/lib/openldap/slapd 2829
Shutting down ldap-server
<notice -- Nov 27 18:21:02.71609000>
killproc: kill(2829,15)
..done
Starting ldap-server
Thank's