Errors: Generating the NSX-T Data Center Health Report

[tenthirtyam]

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VMware Cloud Foundation

4.4.1

Module Version

1.0.4

PowerShell Version

Windows PowerShell 5.1

PowerCLI Version

12.7.0

PowerVCF Version

2.2.0

Guest Operating System

Windows Server 2019

Environment Details

Scale Testing Environment

Description

Errors seen in Invoke-VcfHealthReport:

 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Starting the process of creating a Health Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Setting up the log file to path C:\Reporting\logs\Invoke-VcfHealthReport-11-17-2022_04_29_21.log.
 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Setting up report folder and report C:\Reporting\HealthReports\11-17-2022_04_29_16-health-foo.htm.
 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Running an SoS Health Check for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io), process takes time.
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the Service Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the DNS Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the NTP Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the Certificate Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the ESXi Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the vSAN Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the vSAN Storage Policy Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:02] INFO Generating the vCenter Server Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:06] INFO Generating the ESXi Connection Health Data report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:37:46] INFO Generating the NSX-T Data Center Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:38:13]   Error at Script Line 3483
 [11-17-2022_16:38:13]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
 [11-17-2022_16:38:13]   Error Message: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'user'. Cannot convert value to type System.String.
 [11-17-2022_16:38:17]   Error at Script Line 3572
 [11-17-2022_16:38:17]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
 [11-17-2022_16:38:17]   Error Message: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'user'. Cannot convert value to type System.String.
 [11-17-2022_16:38:33]   Error at Script Line 3483
 [11-17-2022_16:38:33]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
 [11-17-2022_16:38:33]   Error Message: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'user'. Cannot convert value to type System.String.
 [11-17-2022_16:38:37]   Error at Script Line 3572
 [11-17-2022_16:38:37]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
 [11-17-2022_16:38:37]   Error Message: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'user'. Cannot convert value to type System.String.
 [11-17-2022_16:38:37] INFO Generating the Connectivity Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:39:09] INFO Generating the Backup Status Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:40:07] INFO Generating the SDDC Manager Free Pool Health for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:40:19] INFO Generating the Snapshots Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:41:20] INFO Generating the Password Expiry Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:56:10] INFO Generating the NSX Transport Node Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:56:32] INFO Generating the NSX Transport Node Tunnel Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:57:04] INFO Generating the NSX Tier-0 Gateway BGP Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:57:29] INFO Generating the Disk Capacity Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).'
 [11-17-2022_17:00:47] INFO Generating the Virtual Machines with Connected CD-ROM Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_17:01:28] INFO Generating the final report and saving to (C:\Reporting\HealthReports\11-17-2022_04_29_16-health-foo.htm).

Error or Debug Output

 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Starting the process of creating a Health Report for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Setting up the log file to path C:\Reporting\logs\Invoke-VcfHealthReport-11-17-2022_04_29_21.log.
 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Setting up report folder and report C:\Reporting\HealthReports\11-17-2022_04_29_16-health-foo.htm.
 [11-17-2022_16:29:21] INFO Running an SoS Health Check for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io), process takes time.
...
 [11-17-2022_16:37:46] INFO Generating the NSX-T Data Center Health Report using the SoS output for VMware Cloud Foundation instance (foo.rainpole.io).
 [11-17-2022_16:38:13]   Error at Script Line 3483
 [11-17-2022_16:38:13]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
 [11-17-2022_16:38:13]   Error Message: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'user'. Cannot convert value to type System.String.
 [11-17-2022_16:38:17]   Error at Script Line 3572
 [11-17-2022_16:38:17]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
 [11-17-2022_16:38:17]   Error Message: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'user'. Cannot convert value to type System.String.
 [11-17-2022_16:38:33]   Error at Script Line 3483
 [11-17-2022_16:38:33]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
 [11-17-2022_16:38:33]   Error Message: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'user'. Cannot convert value to type System.String.
 [11-17-2022_16:38:37]   Error at Script Line 3572
 [11-17-2022_16:38:37]   Relevant Command: if (Test-NSXTAuthentication -server $vcfNsxDetails.fqdn -user $vcfNsxDetails.adminUser -pass $vcfNsxDetails.adminPass) {
...
 [11-17-2022_17:01:28] INFO Generating the final report and saving to (C:\Reporting\HealthReports\11-17-2022_04_29_16-health-foo.htm).

Expected Behavior

No errors when generating the NSX-T Data Center Health Report.

Actual Behavior

Console errors when generating the NSX-T Data Center Health Report.

Steps to Reproduce

$sddcManagerFqdn = "foo.rainpole.local"
$sddcManagerUser = "administrator@vsphere.local"
$sddcManagerPass = "********"

$sddcManagerRootPass = "********"
$reportPath = "C:\Reporting"

Invoke-VcfHealthReport -sddcManagerFqdn $sddcManagerFqdn -sddcManagerUser $sddcManagerUser -sddcManagerPass $sddcManagerPass -sddcManagerRootPass $sddcManagerRootPass -reportPath $reportPath -allDomains

Log Fragments and Files

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Screenshots

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References

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[tenthirtyam]

After performing some additional testing these errors only appear in environments running 1:many NSX:VC configurations for sharing an NSX Local Manager instance across >1 workload domain.

Effected Functions:

Request-NsxtVidmStatus -server $server -user $user -pass $pass -domain $domain

Request-NsxtComputeManagerStatus -server $server -user $user -pass $pass -domain $domain

Ryan Johnson
Senior Staff Solutions Architect | Product Engineering @ VMware, Inc.

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