I noticed today that when in the VMWare Update Manager in admin view, some of the custom VIBs I had in were showing as “Not Connected”. This was my custom location for HP VIBs of http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml as I use the HP image on the hosts in this vCenter. When I forced VUM to check the URL again, it was coming back again as “Not Connected”. So I thought I would try loading the XML file in a browser, which presented me with this lovely little “notification”;
I say “notification” as what they’ve done is use a redirect to point you to a different URL, which then contains the message that you must use a different URL now.
The new HP VIB URL is https://vibsdepot.hpe.com/index.xml and note the https rather than http.
Adding the new updated URL to the XML file get’s us right back into a connected state;
This has obviously been done following the HP and HPE split that was announced a few years ago, but which is obviously just starting to have consequences for things like this.
I hope this helps someone out.