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vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

FYLKESMANNENTYL — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:44:07 GMT

Hi,

I'm running vCenter 5.5. with VSC 4.2.1, and I face the same problems as many others, "Failed to determine privileges for operation:Edit" when trying to edit my backup-jobs.

Any clues on how to fix this? I've seen there are several threads on this, but no answer in any of them.

Thanks.

Re: vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

pjoel — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:23:57 GMT

Can you check your logs and confirm if you see anything there ?

\\NetApp\Virtual Storage Console\log\smvi.log

\\NetApp\Virtual Storage Console\smvi\server\log\server.log

Re: vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

henk_ruis — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:05:03 GMT

Hi,

I hit the same issue today after updating VSC4.2.1 on a VMware 5.1 environment.

One out of two backup jobs have this issue.

I can create a new job with the same setting but I can't delete or suspend the backup job with this issue.

The only thing i can think of is that I deleted some datastored who are linked to this job.

Re: vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

pvanvoorene — Fri, 30 May 2014 14:46:50 GMT

Hi,

I had the same issue, but after remounting the removed datastores with the original names I was able to edit the backup again.

Re: vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

MICHAELBIERMANN — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:57:10 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have the same issue, but I can not remount the removed datastore, because we've deleted it from the storage system.

I think a recreation of the datastore (create a new one with the same name) won't work, because the new datastore would have a new UUID which will be different from the previous one.

Is there a way to delete the obosolete backup job without remounting the datastore?

Thanks in advance.

Re: vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

MICHAELBIERMANN — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:17:11 GMT

Hi again,

solved the problem by

1.) Stopping the service "NetApp SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure",

2.) Editing the file %ProgramFiles%\NetApp\Virtual Storage Console\smvi\server\repository\scheduledBackups.xml by removing the xml-parts of the backup-job which is making problems.

3.) Starting service "NetApp SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure".

Thats it.

Re: vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

RobertSalcido — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:34:56 GMT

This solution worked for me. I confirmed it with NetApp Support. Thanks for the tip, MICHAELBIERMANN .

-Robert Salcido

Re: vCenter 5.5 - VSC 4.2.1 - Failed to determine privileges for operation

VSCuser — Mon, 18 May 2015 05:58:49 GMT

worked for me too, thanks for the tip!

why is there no official netapp KB addressing this issue?

if one needs to work with this plugin (which has been around for a while...) one needs some kind of control over it.

why cant i see the schedule backup jobs from the web client? why no edit options?

at least release a kb explaning how to properly manage the vsc backups....