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Aria Automation node from a 3-node cluster is down/unavailable, and Provisioning is not functioning

 One Aria Automation node from a 3 node cluster is down/unavailable and Provisioning is not functioning

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=377795

Products

VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

  • one Aria Automation node is down / unavailable due to Infrastructure issues
  • Aria Automation portal is accessible
  • VM provisioning is taking a long time and eventually failing with errors about Event topics e.g.: "Failed to publish event to topic: Deployment requested"
  • reviewing Aria Automation services using command "kubectl -n prelude get pods -o wide" only 1 pods from one node are down
  • reviewing RabbitMQ status using below command, only 1 node shows as active node (Ref: Resolve RabbitMQ cluster issues in vRA 8.x deployment)
    seq 0 2 | xargs -n 1 -I {} kubectl exec -n prelude rabbitmq-ha-{} -- bash -c "rabbitmqctl cluster_status"
  • API calls to Aria Automation may fail with HTTP status 500 - Internal Server Error

Environment

Aria Automation 8.x

Cause

A cluster instability may be cause if one of the Aria Automation nodes went down, which may lead to issue in the Messaging Queue, RabbitMQ.

Due to RabbitMQ isolation, another RabbitMQ service was stopped, therefor the last working RabbitMQ service stopped handling any messages.

Resolution

Restore the Aria Automation node, if Linux booted into Emergency console then please review this article:

"Failed to start file system check on /dev/disk..." error on Photon OS based virtual appliances

 

To workaround the issue while the node is not working:

Before proceeding please take a Snapshot, including Memory, of the 2 available nodes from vCenter.

  1. Identify current running RabbitMQ nodes:
    kubectl -n prelude get pods -o wide | grep -Ei "name|rabbitmq"
  2. Identify which pods are currently running the RabbitMQ application:
    seq 0 2 | xargs -n 1 -I {} kubectl exec -n prelude rabbitmq-ha-{} -- bash -c "rabbitmqctl cluster_status"

    E.g.:



    Only "rabbitmq-ha-0" is active, depending to which node is down "rabbitmq-ha-1" or "rabbitmq-ha-2" the opposite has to be started
  3. Try to start the RabbitMQ application on the node which is available but not listed as "Running Nodes" from above command.

    E.g.: Node 3 of the Aria Automation cluster has the outage, Node 2 is running but RabbitMQ not reporting
    kubectl exec -n prelude rabbitmq-ha-1 -- bash -c "rabbitmqctl start_app"
  4. Validate that now 2 nodes reporting as running using the same command as Step 2:
    seq 0 2 | xargs -n 1 -I {} kubectl exec -n prelude rabbitmq-ha-{} -- bash -c "rabbitmqctl cluster_status"
  5. Validate provisioning is now proceeding by creating a new Request in Aria Automation portal

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