{"id":1884,"date":"2014-03-25T21:50:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2015-12-09T18:31:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:31:41","slug":"workaround-vmware-gre-dp-7-038-1x-vcenter-5-1-u2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/workaround-vmware-gre-dp-7-038-1x-vcenter-5-1-u2\/","title":{"rendered":"Workaround: VMware GRE – DP 7.03\/8.1X – vCenter 5.1 U2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After updating to vCenter 5.1 update 2 and with Data Protector 7.03 or 8.1X a blank page might be displayed when using VMware GRE. The reason might be a change in Tomcat of vCenter. When looking into the log files (i.e. C:\\ProgramData\\VMware\\VMware VirtualCenter\\Logs\\localhost.YYYY-MM-DD.log) the error VMwareGRE: runCGI (stderr):Can't open perl script \"C:\\Program\": No such file or directory<\/code> might be displayed. As a workaround the config file web.xml<\/code> of the VMware GRE plugin can be modified. When using a standard installation the file is located in C:\\Program Files\\VMware\\Infrastructure\\tomcat\\webapps\\VMwareGRE\\WEB-INF\\<\/code>. The workaround will change how the parameters are handled.<\/p>\n

Change the block:<\/p>\n

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\n<param -value\/>”C:\\Program Files\\OmniBack\\bin\\perl.exe” -I “C:\\Program Files\\OmniBack\\lib\\perl”
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Changed block:<\/p>\n

\n<init -param>
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\n<init -param>
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\n<init -param>
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After updating to vCenter 5.1 update 2 and with Data Protector 7.03 or 8.1X a blank page might be displayed when using VMware GRE. The reason might be a change in Tomcat of vCenter. When looking into the log files (i.e. C:\\ProgramData\\VMware\\VMware VirtualCenter\\Logs\\localhost.YYYY-MM-DD.log) the error VMwareGRE: runCGI (stderr):Can’t open perl script “C:\\Program”: No such file […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","de"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28cjj-uo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1710,"url":"https:\/\/www.data-protector.org\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/data-protector-8-10-whats-new\/","url_meta":{"origin":1884,"position":0},"title":"Data Protector 8.10 available – whats new?","date":"7. 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