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Cannot connect to VBA after MS hotfixes.
After installing Super Tuesday updates on my servers, my VBA backups are all failing with "Unable to connect to VBA emc-ba.it.endgames.local, error Cannot establish session to VBA." And that's literally it. I go to the logs for that job and that's also all it says. All backups were working so, there's really not much else it could be. There is not firewall between networker and the VBA or the ESXi server. When I snoop the connection through WireShark, I see traffic between the two on port 8543, so I'm rather mystified here. I'm in the process of reviewing all the updates to see what might be likely, but I'm hoping someone may have already seen and resolved this, even though I didn't see anything in the forum.
This is Networker 8.1.3 on Windows 2012 with VBA version1.0.3.6.
Anonymous
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June 19th, 2015 17:00
I ran into this myself. However we had to fix it a different way. We were lucky enough to run into the patch released by vmware for VDP (very similar to the EBR appliance). It's re-creates a new cert which will work with all ms updates.
The script is here
pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Suse0Cny
You can copy this ton a /tmp directory inside the ebr and execute it. it will require a reboot then you will notice you can get into ebr-configure with any browser and cert issues go away.
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May 30th, 2017 14:00
Hi All,
Please apply ECHO Hot Fix for VBA 1.1.1.50
It has resolved the same issue for me
Kleinenbroich
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May 31st, 2017 06:00
I didn't install the mentioned patch, but also I wasn't able to access EBR using Firefox or Internet Explorer. For me the solution was to use Firefox 29.
If you download the Firefox you don't need to install it, just use e. g. 7-zip to extract "Firefox Setup 29.0.1.exe" to e. g. folder Firefox Setup 29.0.1.. Under \Firefox Setup 29.0.1\core there is firefox.exe double click it and enter the url for EBR.
Please keep in mind: If there is already a different Firefox instance open (e. g. Firefox 53) a new instance of this firefox will be started and not a Firefox 29 instance (at least this is what I observed).
Good luck
Michael