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Failed Aria Automation Upgrade Prep
Nov 5, 2024 · 2 min read ·
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I went to upgrade Aria Automation from 8.18 to 8.18.1 in my lab the other day and got blocked by an error I hadn't seen before and unfortunately, LCM and a KB search didn't provide much in the way of help. I decided to check and see what information the command line might have for me. After SSHing in and utilizing …
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Resolving a 403 Error in Aria Automation Config with vIDM Integration
Dec 14, 2023 · 2 min read ·
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The other day, I took a leap and activated the IDM integration for my Aria Automation Config instance, after months of punting it down the road and just logging in as root. Unfortunately, once I activated the integration I immediately got a 403 error once I tried to login!

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vRealize Automation fails to install Salt Minion
Mar 11, 2022 · 2 min read ·
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I was attempting to leverage the saltConfiguration property in a vRA Cloud Template and ran into an issue where vRA would deploy the VM and then fail with an error indicating that the Salt Minion deploy failed. I was particularly puzzled by this because the cloud template I was using had worked previously, so it was a …
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Auto scaling your application with the vRealize Suite
Jan 13, 2021 · 5 min read · vra vro vrops ·
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When I was advocating for vRealize Automation while in my previous role, a frequent question I was asked by application owners was: "Can I auto scale my application, like <insert cloud provider here> allows me to?" This question often lead to defensive responses on my part.
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Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 3
Dec 27, 2020 · 4 min read · vra vro vrops ·
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Today we will be reviewing the workflow package used to handle all of the aspects of this automated process. We will be leveraging several built workflows and actions, a set of community sourced workflows, and a simple workflow that stitches them together.
The other posts in this series can be found below:
- Day Two …
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Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 2
Nov 21, 2020 · 3 min read · vra vro vrops ·
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Last time we laid out the general approach of our automation framework. Today we will be completing some of the per-requisite technical tasks to enable vROPS to apply a layer of governance and detection to our framework.
The other posts in this series can be found below:
- Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – …
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Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 1
Aug 26, 2020 · 3 min read · vro vra vrops ·
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In my years on the administration and engineering side of the VMware world a task I was frequently responsible for was creating policies around the standards of my environment and then defining a process to ensure those policies were adhered to. Some examples of the policies I authored was things around snapshot …
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Failed Aria Automation Upgrade Prep

Resolving a 403 Error in Aria Automation Config with vIDM Integration

vRealize Automation fails to install Salt Minion

Auto scaling your application with the vRealize Suite

Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 3

Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 2

Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part 1