PowerPath Management Appliance (PPMA): Running rpowermt command returns "Segmentation fault"

Summary: Running rpowermt command returns "Segmentation fault" against PowerPath/VE (ESXi) hosts.

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Symptoms

Running rpowermt command returns "Segmentation fault" against PowerPath/VE (ESXi) hosts.

Cause

This mostly is due to PPMA not able to communicate with the PowerPath/VE hosts and hence leads to this error.

Resolution

This issue has mostly been seen with PPMA 3.4 P01 (and onwards) with vSphere ESXi 8.x hosts.
This is due to the user (with which the vCenter is added) not having required privileges or the mandatory user "powerpath@vsphere.local" isn't used to add the vCenter to PPMA 3.4 P01.

Additional Information

See the Installation and Configuration Guide for more details.

Affected Products

VMware ESXi 8.x
Article Properties
Article Number: 000211601
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 26 Jun 2023
Version:  4
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