After Restore of vCenter7.0 Update 2d Task Shows Label
I have just Restore of a vCenter 7.0 Update 2d, from a VAMI backup. Not sure if this is the only version that have this problem.
After I was restored the tasks was only showing the “Task Label” and not the normal text, on some of the vCenter tasks, it looked like this.
![](https://www.virtual-allan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/image.png)
Apparently the restore process, does not install or restore the files that does the translation of the labels to human readable text strings..
I found a Blog in Germen, about this, but, I wanted to bee sure, that have the correct versions of the files.
This files are located in this directory “/etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/cmCatalog”. There was 2 files missing from this directory, “com.vmware.cis.vcenterserver.zip” and “com.vmware.cis.com.vmware.vsphere.client.zip”.
I found a Blog in Germen about this, but I wanted to be sure, that have the correct versions of the files, so I fixed it a little differently.
The customer had another vCenter that was running the same version/build, so i just copied the 2 files from that vCenter and to the restored vCenter and changed the user/permissions like this afterwards:
cd /etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/cmCatalog chown vsphere-ui:users com.vmware.cis.com.vmware.vsphere.client.zip chown vsphere-ui:users com.vmware.cis.vcenterserver.zip chmod 0644 com.vmware.cis.com.vmware.vsphere.client.zip chmod 0644 com.vmware.cis.vcenterserver.zip
This fixed the problem, no reboot required.
Important note: Use this fix at your own risk, or contact VMware support to get it fixed.
NOTE: If you try this get the files from another vCenter that is running, make sure it’s the same version/build, to be sure they are appropriate for you vCenter. There might be some changes between version.
NOTE: I transfered the file with the “scp” command, to do this you must change the shell on the source server to bash and afterward return it to appliancesh. The 2 command can be seen here.
chsh -s /bin/bash chsh -s /bin/appliancesh
To do the transfer from another vCenter:
scp root@<source vCenter>:/etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/cmCatalog/com.vmware.cis.vcenterserver.zip /etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/cmCatalog/ scp root@<source vCenter>:/etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/cmCatalog/com.vmware.cis.com.vmware.vsphere.client.zip /etc/vmware/vsphere-ui/cmCatalog/