Description of problem: Smart state analysis on vmware VMs fails with non-root user having "Administrator" role - the same role as root has assigned. - When running SSA as a non-root user (in this case "evm" is the username) I get this: http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/322853 - Running as root, in the same part of the logs where this happens for evm, I see this: And then the smart-state analysis continues successfully. http://pastebin.test.redhat.com/322854 So I’m guessing the Nfcsvc plugin not getting started when running as a non-root user has something to do with the failure. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cfme-5.4.1.0-1.el6cf.x86_64 vmware vsphere 5.5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a local user with Administrator privileges on one ESX server 2. Use this user with host (Infrastructure --> Hosts --> --> Configuration --> Edit this host --> Credentials --> Default) 3. Perform the smart state analysis on the VMs Actual results: Smart state analysis fails Expected results: Fleecing should successful as we are giving administrator privileges to the non-root user. Additional info:
http://talk.manageiq.org/t/ssa-on-vmware-fails-with-non-root-user-with-admin-priviliges/693
Hui Song, Yeah, I just tested with 6.0 VDDK and could perform smart state analysis successfully without non-root (with admin privileges) user. Question : VDDK 6.0 is supported on cfme 5.4 ? If I remember there were some issues. If it's not supported on cfme 5.4 or lower version at all. We may need to add a big note stating root user required to perform SSA in documentation if its bug in vddk 5.5 side. CloudForms Management Engine 5.3 supports VDDK 5.5 (VMware-vix-disklib-5.5.0-1284542.x86_64.tar.gz). CloudForms Management Engine 5.2 supports VDDK 5.5 (VMware-vix-disklib-5.5.0-1284542.x86_64.tar.gz). CloudForms Management Engine (CFME) 5.1 supports VDDK 1.2.2 (VMware-vix-disklib-1.2.2-702422.x86_64.tar.gz). https://access.redhat.com/articles/375983 Let me know your thoughts please. We can then approach to documentation team.
(In reply to Prasad Mukhedkar from comment #5) > > Question : VDDK 6.0 is supported on cfme 5.4 ? If I remember there were some > issues. If it's not supported on cfme 5.4 or lower version at all. We may > need to add a big note stating root user required to perform SSA in > documentation if its bug in vddk 5.5 side. > I am not really sure if cfme 5.4 supports VDDK 6.0 or not. But I didnt' feel any problems. The real issue here is the version of vmware providers inside of cfme 5.4 should follow the vmware support matrix: "The VMware policy concerning backward and forward compatibility is for VDDK to support N-2 and N+1 releases. In other words, VDDK 5.5 and all of its update releases support vSphere 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0 (except new features)." Rich, could you answer the question?
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