Hi all,
I've stumbled on an issue creating dynamically generated dropdowns for use in property definitions when the following conditions are in place:
1. You have a multi-tenant environment.
2. Each tenant is pointing to a DIFFERENT vRO instance. For example, you have a DEV tenant which points to your DEV vRO while your vsphere.local points to your Production VRO.
3. You are trying to configure a dynamically generated dropdown that is NOT on vsphere.local.
4. I'm using vRA version 7.1.
As I created the property definition and bound the values to the external vRO action that returns an array of strings, I received a generic "An error has occurred banner" on the GUI and the new dynamic property was not added. I was able to pick the vRO action from the list of items that are native to the configured vRO for my DEV tenant. It isn't until I clicked "Submit" that I received the warning banner. I was also unable to find the stack trace for this failure in the log section of the vRA GUI. In order to capture what is going on, I had to look at the catalina.out file in /storage/log/vmware/vcac. Here I saw the following at the top of an error stack trace shortly after clicking the "Submit" button:
com.vmware.vcac.platform.service.rest.resolver.ApplicationExceptionHandler.handleHttpStatusCodeException:673 - 404 not found
The workaround: I had to change the vRO configuration on the vsphere.local tenant to match the configuration on the DEV tenant. Before hand I tried to import the action from DEV's vRO instance into vsphere.local's, but I'm assuming the change in action GUIDs between the two still caused the same error to occur. Now I am able to get the dropdown working in the DEV tenant at the expense of having my vsphere.local pointing to something I do not want it to.
Maybe this is something that can be fixed in 7.2?
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