#vROPS stuck in Waiting for Analytics state: check your hostname

During a Partner enablement session we figured out that a new deployed vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) instance was not able to be started correctly. Login into https://vrops.fqdn/admin the following was shown under system status.

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Even after deleting and redeploying vROPS it was not working that the vROPS service comes up.

The collector.log file was showing some strange heartbeat messages:

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Not really helpful, but luckily the gemfire logfiles were giving us further information and were pointing us to an interesting finding:

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Exception “Caused by: hava.net.MalformedUrlException: Bad URL path: _vcops.testlab.intern”

the hostname for the vROPS instance was pbu_vcops.testlab.intern. Somehow the internal mechanism screwed it up to work with the _ within the name.

–> Redeploying vROPS with a NETBIOS compatible hostname was totally working fine.

My recommendation: Keep your hostnames short and clean ;-)

 

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