any ideas?
Download Patch Definitions
Web sites:
https://www.vmware.com/PatchManagementSystem/patchmanagement
hosting the patch definitions and patches cannot be reached or has
no patch data. Check the internet connectivity.
Download Patch Definitions
Web sites:
https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/index.xm-
l; hosting the patch definitions and patches cannot be reached or
has no patch data. Check the internet connectivity.
Same problem, our company web filter was blocking the https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/in-dex.xml and
https://hostupdate.vm-ware.com/software/VUM/PROD-UCTION/csco-main-index.xml web sites.
The solution was to add the websites into the allowed website list.
Gene
remove syntax for esx3 updates/patches from vci-integrity.xml
works fine.
The download was hanging due to VMA in our case. After powering down the VMA appliance and restarting the VUM service it completed immediately.
we've got the same issue. this helped us:
errors in logs:
Error 12175 from WinHttpSendRequest for url https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/csco-main/csco-depot-index.xml
solution:
Update Manager 5.0 introduces a new setting that verifies the SSL certificates during download. By default, this value is set to 1 or enabled.
To disable this behavior:
source:
I had to purge all the updates from the folder where VUM stores the updates (we are running vCenter on Windows not the virtual appliance).
After purging them VUM redownloaded everything. This was back in vCenter 4.x days..