vMA cli Issue...

I was able to successfully install the vMA appliance and update it in my vSphere environment, then added servers to it (2 hosts and the VMware vCenter Server appliance). I ran the 'vifp listservers' command and it successfully lists the 3 that I added. The next step, as I understand is to add a target, so when I ran the command 'vifptarget -s <vCenter Server IP>', it returns '-bash: vifptarget: command not found'. I read somewhere that you can change the directory to '/opt/vmware/vma/bin' but when I did I got the same error. What can I do here? Anyone else have this issue?

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blargoe

Do you see the vifptarget binary in the location '/opt/vmware/vma/bin' ?

JohnnyBiggles

How can I check? This is the output:

login as: vi-admin
Welcome to vSphere Management Assistant
vi-admin@192.168.xxx.xxx's password:
Last login: Thu May  2 07:05:55 2013 from 192.168.xxx.xxx
Welcome to vMA
vi-admin@localhost:~> cd /opt/vmware/vma/bin/
vi-admin@localhost:/opt/vmware/vma/bin> ls
completion_vifp        resxtopWrapper        vmaclean
completion_vifptarget  verifyuuid            vma-system-control.pl
completion_vifs        vifp                  vmatargetcon
esxcliWrapper          vifpd                 vmware-vma
firstboot              vifptarget            vmware-vma-cert-install.pl
migrateconfig          vifsTab               vmware-vma-netconf.pl
migratecredstore       vitargetenumerate.pl  vmware-watchdog
repLine.pl             vitargetquery.sh
vi-admin@localhost:/opt/vmware/vma/bin> vifptarget --help
-bash: vifptarget: command not found
vi-admin@localhost:/opt/vmware/vma/bin>

JohnnyBiggles

This is how I tried it originally:

login as: vi-admin
Welcome to vSphere Management Assistant
vi-admin@192.168.xxx.xxx's password:
Last login: Thu May  2 07:05:55 2013 from 192.168.xxx.xxx
Welcome to vMA
vi-admin@localhost:~> vifptarget --help
-bash: vifptarget: command not found
vi-admin@localhost:~>

dave330i

I've ran into this problem when I wasn't using vi-admin account. Don't remember having this problem with vi-admin account.

JohnnyBiggles

Any suggestions or a have workaround? Does this weigh a lot on how much I'll be able to get done using the CLI if there's no solution?

dave330i

I would remove the hosts from vifp, delete vMA and re-install.

JohnnyBiggles

What version have you used? I removed the servers, then deleted the entire VM from disk, reinstalled it (from the OVF), updated it via the web interface and now it's doing the same thing. It updated to

Appliance Version:

5.1.0.1 Build 1062361

Do you think using the default version would allow this command

: because this new one doesn't seem to have it...

JohnnyBiggles

I just discovered that the version I downloaded as shown:

Appliance Version:
5.1.0.0 Build 782391

is able to run the command I have been trying in the newer version 5.1.0.1 Build 1062361 which I updated to. They must have changed or broken something with the update.