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    I am trying to establish a VCenter as an External Provider.  The
    when I try to "Test" the connection, the ovirt error message says
    that I have "failed to communicate". <br>
    <br>
    The Vcenter logs clearly shows the logging in and logging out of the
    ovirt administrator to the vCenter instance.<br>
    <br>
    And the final error message says:
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                2016 9:49:06 AM</div>
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                VMWare was updated. (User: admin@internal)</div>
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                style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden;
                text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Failed to
                retrieve VMs information from external server
                vpx://vcenter.mcsaipan.net/MCS1/vmware.mcsaipan.net?no_verify=1
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    I am using oVirt 3.6.6 <br>
    Vcenter Server Appliance<br>
    no Cluster<br>
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    <br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
    <span style="color: rgb(169, 68, 66); font-family: 'Arial Unicode
      MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal;
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      display: inline !important; float: none; background-color:
      rgb(242, 222, 222);">Uncaught exception occurred. Please try<span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a
      href="javascript:window.location.reload(true)" style="box-sizing:
      border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 170); text-decoration: none;
      font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:
      small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
      normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.6667px; orphans:
      auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: nowrap; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(242, 222,
      222);">reloading</a><span style="color: rgb(169, 68, 66);
      font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:
      small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
      normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.6667px; orphans:
      auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: nowrap; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float:
      none; background-color: rgb(242, 222, 222);"><span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the page. Details:
      Exception caught: Exception caught: (TypeError) __gwt$exception:
      &lt;skipped&gt;: Cannot read property 'f' of null</span><br
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      font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:
      small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
      normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.6667px; orphans:
      auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: nowrap; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(242, 222,
      222);">
    <span style="color: rgb(169, 68, 66); font-family: 'Arial Unicode
      MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal;
      font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
      line-height: 21.6667px; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
      text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap;
      widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
      display: inline !important; float: none; background-color:
      rgb(242, 222, 222);">Please have your administrator check the UI
      logs<br>
      <br>
    </span><span style="color: rgb(169, 68, 66); font-size: small;
      font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
      letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.6667px; text-align: start;
      text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap;
      widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float:
      none; background-color: rgb(242, 222, 222);"><font color="#000000">This
        guy pops up when I try to connect.</font></span><br>
    <br>
    Anyway just looking for a clue. Any suggestions are welcome.<br>
    <br>
    Thanks<br>
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