A non-fatal exception occured during replication. The replication job will be restarted from the last checkpoint.

Products

• Management Platform (Formerly known as Notification Server)

Issue/Introduction

Symantec Management Platform (SMP) environment with hierarchy configured. 

A non-fatal exception occured during replication. The replication job will be restarted from the last checkpoint. 
A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond".

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Cause

Child SMP had a LMHosts file configured with and incorrect IP for Parent SMP. 

Environment

Any hierarchy configured environment
SMP 7.6
SMP 8.0
SMP 8.1

Resolution

Remove incorrect entry in LMHosts file.