New Dynamic Type not available as a Custom Resource in vCAC 6.0.1

Dynamic Types in vCAC enable you to extend the vCAC Inventory to include types created in vCO. For example you might be working with an F5 system and wish to make a tangible object back in vCAC that a user can view the properties of and have Actions assigned to.

Having created some Dynaimc Types in vCO for a project I was working on they were not appearing as available to add in vCAC Custom Resources - only the defaults were seen to be available.

 

I found this community post which suggested it’s a known issue and fixed in a later release than 6.0.1. There were a number of suggestions in the post for what needed to be done to make the Dynamic Types available.

• Restart the vCAC appliance
• Restart the vCO appliance
• Reset default tenant password
• Re-sync the time
• Restart vCAC IaaS service
• A combination of the above

I didn’t want to restart any of the appliances really, particularly as this release of vCAC is pretty flaky in my experience and restarting anything can be problematic.

I managed to track it down to restarting the vcac-server service in the vCAC appliance. Consequently, I only needed to restart that particular service and wait the obligatory 5 - 10 mins for the services to fully register again.

service vcac-server restart

After that, the new Dynamic Types were available as a Custom Resource.