PowerProtect: Virtual Machine vCenter Asset discovery fails with exit status ADS0001

Summary: The vCenter Asset discovery fails with exit status ADS0001.

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Symptoms

The PowerProtect Data Manager appliance is used to protect the vSphere environment. The configured vCenter user account password was changed, and it was updated in the PowerProtect Data Manager configuration under Administration > Credentials > VCENTER. The vCenter Asset discovery now fails with exit status ADS0001:

Failed
ADS0001: Virtual machine asset discovery on the vCenter my-vcenter.my-domain.com was unsuccessful.

Virtual machine asset discovery cannot be completed because of unrecoverable error conditions.

Check the connection between PowerProtect Data Manager and vCenter. Verify that the provided credentials are valid. Start a manual discovery to discover all virtual machine assets, or wait for PowerProtect Data Manager to perform the next scheduled discovery. If the issue persists, contact Dell Customer Support.
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Figure 1: ADS0001 Error details

 

The discovery job export shows an exception when discovering the client tags in the environment: 
YYYY-MM-DD 12:54:01.740Z INFO [discovery-worker-7] [][][][TRACE_ID:9befe126d52f934c;JOB_ID:943f5ac12f0589d1][] [c.e.b.v.t.c.u.VcenterTagClientFactory.newTagClient(66)] -  my-vcenter.my-domain.com: tag client exists com.emc.brs.vmdm.tag.common.client.VcenterTagClient@39752094 
YYYY-MM-DD 12:54:16.741Z INFO [discovery-worker-7] [][][][TRACE_ID:9befe126d52f934c;JOB_ID:943f5ac12f0589d1][] [c.e.b.v.t.c.u.VcenterTagClientFactory.newTagClient(66)] -  my-vcenter.my-domain.com: tag client exists com.emc.brs.vmdm.tag.common.client.VcenterTagClient@39752094 
YYYY-MM-DD 12:54:31.741Z INFO [discovery-worker-7] [][][][TRACE_ID:9befe126d52f934c;JOB_ID:943f5ac12f0589d1][] [c.e.b.v.t.c.u.VcenterTagClientFactory.newTagClient(66)] -  my-vcenter.my-domain.com: tag client exists com.emc.brs.vmdm.tag.common.client.VcenterTagClient@39752094 
YYYY-MM-DD 12:54:46.742Z INFO [discovery-worker-7] [][][][TRACE_ID:9befe126d52f934c;JOB_ID:943f5ac12f0589d1][] [c.e.b.v.t.c.u.VcenterTagClientFactory.newTagClient(66)] -  my-vcenter.my-domain.com: tag client exists com.emc.brs.vmdm.tag.common.client.VcenterTagClient@39752094 
vmdm-discovery.log: 2023-07-06T12:55:01.742Z ERROR [discovery-worker-7] [][][][TRACE_ID:9befe126d52f934c;JOB_ID:943f5ac12f0589d1][] [c.e.b.v.d.v.v.w.FullDiscoveryWorker.doTagDiscovery(306)] -  vCenter: my-vcenter.my-domain.com: Exception message: Failed to get tag connection after 5 retries.  Error: constructVcenterTagClient, id: 36a52b12-7fc4-5333-9c2b-dc03f32f606d, inventorySourceResourceId: 36a52b12-7fc4-5333-9c2b-dc03f32f606d, vCenterHost: my-vcenter.my-domain.com, error: java.lang.NullPointerException, root cause message: NullPointerException:  
com.emc.brs.vmdm.tag.common.error.VmdmTagException: Exception message: Failed to get tag connection after 5 retries.  Error: constructVcenterTagClient, id: 36a52b12-7fc4-5333-9c2b-dc03f32f606d, inventorySourceResourceId: 36a52b12-7fc4-5333-9c2b-dc03f32f606d, vCenterHost: my-vcenter.my-domain.com, error: java.lang.NullPointerException, root cause message: NullPointerException: 
	at com.emc.brs.vmdm.discovery.tag_discovery.service.impl.AbstractBaseTagDiscoveryService.doAllTagDiscoveryForFullDiscovery(AbstractBaseTagDiscoveryService.java:126)
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The vmdm.log shows continuous messages indicating the JSON Web Token (JWT) used to authenticate to the vCenter could not be updated: 
YYYY-MM-DD 15:12:33.955Z WARN [not.a.Spring.bean-1] [][][][TRACE_ID:b92303f0d8aa8b03][] [c.emc.brs.aaa.client.Utils.figureAuthorizationTokenFromJwt(127)] -  Not a JWT token: 00000000-0000-4000-a000-000000000000 
YYYY-MM-DD 15:12:33.955Z INFO [not.a.Spring.bean-1] [][][][TRACE_ID:b92303f0d8aa8b03][] [c.e.b.a.c.SecureMessageAuthenticator.authorizationTokenFromExpiredComponentAccessToken(150)] -  Attempting to identify expired token 
YYYY-MM-DD 15:12:33.956Z WARN [not.a.Spring.bean-1] [][][][TRACE_ID:b92303f0d8aa8b03][] [c.e.b.p.m.PlatformRabbitmqTemplate.checkAuthentication(2127)] -  Discarding Message as it is not Authenticated: The Authorization token was not set. 
YYYY-MM-DD 15:12:33.956Z WARN [not.a.Spring.bean-1] [][][][TRACE_ID:b92303f0d8aa8b03][] [c.e.b.p.m.PlatformRabbitmqTemplate.sendAuthenticationExceptionReply(2429)] -  Request message recieved without reply_to address. 
YYYY-MM-DD 15:12:33.960Z WARN [not.a.Spring.bean-1] [][][][TRACE_ID:b92303f0d8aa8b03][] [c.e.b.p.m.PlatformRabbitmqTemplate.onMessage(2147)] -  Authentication failed when trying to handle message: (Body:'[B@5c382158(byte[617])' MessageProperties [headers={Authorization=Bearer 00000000-0000-4000-a000-000000000000, xDellCorrelationId=TRACE_ID:35bd6f89-4660-4ff3-b923-03f0d8aa8b03;, __TypeId__=***.***.brs.***.***.NotificationMessageBase}, messageId=e2ca4341-92a7-4702-bb0f-fc1db37bea01, type=ActivityState, contentType=application/json, contentEncoding=UTF-8, contentLength=0, receivedDeliveryMode=PERSISTENT, priority=0, redelivered=false, receivedExchange=1e11fbab-3da3-4eeb-b49f-36854bb88228.topics, receivedRoutingKey=***.***.component.***.***.PUT, deliveryTag=20691, consumerTag=amq.ctag-3E7pRqvvETesXsIbx8OrfQ, consumerQueue=***.***.queue])

Cause

The PowerProtect Virtual Machine Data Mover (VMDM) service was unable to update the authorization JSON Web Token (JWT) token, but the root cause is unknown.

Resolution

Workaround:
The JWT token messages were no longer generated after the restart of the vmdm service, and it allowed the discovery to complete. Restart the vmdm daemon on the PowerProtect Data Manager appliance when there are no VMware Protection Jobs running.

vmdm restart
Article Properties
Article Number: 000215709
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 03 Dec 2025
Version:  2
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