I had a problem where the admin@local password came disconnected in VCF Operations for Fleet management.

I wanted to test the password i had for admin@local however i couldn’t because the GUI was disabled in VCF for fleet management in VCF9, so if you went direct to the URL it gave a message about it being disabled.

SSH to the fleet management appliance as root, run the following command

touch /var/lib/vrlcm/UI_ENABLED

The URL to fleet management will work then, and you can test the password for admin@local

If like me the password you had was wrong you can also update it using the following script on fleet management.

BTW! without two touch commands i was getting an error, “Error while getting password after x retry”

touch /var/lib/vrlcm/
touch /var/lib/vrlcm/ENABLE_PWD_RETRIEVAL
/opt/vmware/share/vami/vami-vlcm-passwd-reset

Input your new password and that should reset the admin@local password, then test it using the URL that you enabled.

I’m waiting for the fix in VCF OPS as that has an error, disconnected still.