Invalid resource ref was looked up, corrupt Xml document: '1'. Parameter name: refrence

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

The customer noticed the following error multiple times a day:

Failed to parse resource association xml, association will be skipped.
[Update] type: cec204b6-cb9e-4d33-9ffd-55ddc62e61fd, parent: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, child: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Invalid resource ref was looked up, corrupt Xml document: '1'
Parameter name: refrence
[System.ArgumentException @ Altiris.NS]
at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.ResourceImporter.GetResourceGuid(String refrence)
at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.ResourceAssociationImporter.ParseResourceAssociationNode(XmlReader reader, ResourceAssociationDataCollection resourceAssociationRowDataCollection)

Failed to parse resource association xml, association will be skipped.
 [Update] type: cec204b6-cb9e-4d33-9ffd-55ddc62e61fd, parent: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, child: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Invalid resource ref was looked up, corrupt Xml document: '1'
Parameter name: refrence
   [System.ArgumentException @ Altiris.NS]
   at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.ResourceImporter.GetResourceGuid(String refrence)
   at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.ResourceAssociationImporter.ParseResourceAssociationNode(XmlReader reader, ResourceAssociationDataCollection resourceAssociationRowDataCollection)

...

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Process: AeXSvc (1304), Thread ID: 300, Module: Altiris.NS.dll
Priority: 2, Source: Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.ResourceAssociationImporter.ParseResourceAssociationNode
 

 

There were two other log entries associated to the same thread before this error:

Entry 1:
Failed to get the resource guid from resource ref '1' for Data Class 'AeX AC Client Connectivity' (8ee53180-630e-438e-ad50-113610d2de13). Data for this resource cannot be processed.

Invalid resource ref was looked up, corrupt Xml document: '1'
Parameter name: refrence
   [System.ArgumentException @ Altiris.NS]
   at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.ResourceImporter.GetResourceGuid(String refrence)
   at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.DataClassImporter.InventoryDataLoader.ServeData2ResourceNode()
...
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Process: AeXSvc (1304), Thread ID: 300, Module: Altiris.NS.dll
Priority: 2, Source: Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.DataClassImporter+InventoryDataLoader.ServeData2ResourceNode

 

Entry 2:
Failed to save messaging resource: '<Server Name>' (fad9c368-4752-4818-a2fa-465cd4739fd8 / 2c3cb3bb-fee9-48df-804f-90856198b600)

Attempt to save messaging resource fad9c368-4752-4818-a2fa-465cd4739fd8 has been blocked by the Host Resource Blacklist.
   [Altiris.NS.TaskManagement.TaskStoppedException @ Altiris.NS]
   at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.MessagingResource.SaveImpl(Boolean allowUpdate)
   at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.RetryAction(Int32 retries, Boolean transacted, Getter`1 getContext, Action`1 action, Action`1 retry, DeadlockRetryArgs& re, Exception& exception, Boolean inTransaction)
   at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.PerformWithDeadlockRetryHelper(Int32 retries, Boolean inTransaction, Getter`1 getContext, Action`1 action, Action`1 retry, Boolean transacted)
   at Altiris.Database.DatabaseContext`1.PerformWithDeadlockRetry(Int32 retries, Boolean startNewTransaction, Nullable`1 isolationLevel, Boolean independentContext, Action`1 action, Action`1 retry)
   at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.MessagingResource.Save()
   at Altiris.NS.ResourceManagement.ResourceImport.MessagingResourceResolver.MrGroup.Save(ResourceImporter imp, IMeasureOperation me, FetchCounter counter, TimeoutCheck report)

...
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Process: AeXSvc (1304), Thread ID: 252, Module: Altiris.NS.dll
Priority: 1, Source: ResourceImporter

Environment

ITMS 8.1 RU7

Cause

In this example, all the errors were right after "Failed to save messaging resource: 'MA-W10-06' " and "Failed to get the resource guid from resource ref '1' for Data Class 'AeX AC Client Connectivity' ". Always about the same machine.
The customer mentioned that this machine should not be reporting to this SMP. This machine had bad data in the database based on incomplete entries.
 

Resolution

We deleted the machine from the Console (select the machine under Manage>Computers then right-click>Delete) and deleted its entry from the AgentBlacklist table as well.