CAPM event sync failure in Spectrum version 10.4.1

Products

• CA Spectrum
• CA eHealth
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration

Issue/Introduction

Event sync is failing between Spectrum and Performance Center.  The Spectrum $SPECROOT/tomcat/logs/catalina.out (stdout.log on Windows) shows exceptions for each SS.  For example:

 

Mar 26, 2020 10:28:03.827 (PoolThread-2: GlobalPool => NPCEventManagerWebserviceURLPoller) (NetqosEventLog) - (ERROR) - Unable to contact Event Manager - stopping all polling.

Mar 26, 2020 04:38:21.675 (PoolThread-26335: PC EventCache => domain ca-poller-01) (NetqosSyncLog) - (ERROR) - Error while processing events for ca-poller-01
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: com.aprisma.util.net.IPAddress.IllegalTermCount 1
 at com.aprisma.util.net.IPAddress.validateTermCount(IPAddress.java:446)

IllegalArgumentException

IPAddress.IllegalTermCount

Environment

Release : 10.4.1

Component : Spectrum Integrations

Cause

This is due to the way Spectrum is processing event 0x10a20.  This event shows IP Address detection:

 

Mar 31, 2020 9:34:55 AM PDT Sim34753:sb-nvsb-c3925-ext-1.nsk.odusb.so Detected 27 new IP addresses and 27 removed IP addresses. System   0x10a20

 

When a device has a change to it's IPAddress table, Spectrum automatically detects that and generates event 0x10a20.  When the event sync would process this event, the data would cause the exception and event polling is stopped.

Resolution

For Spectrum 10.4.1, this is resolved in bi monthly patch #1

 

DE452329 Details:
   31812662 - Charter - 10.4.1 OC tomcat OOM
  (DE452329, 31812662)

 

Although not specifically noted in the debug patch release note, this fix is also included:

 

DE453956

31830934 - Charter - CAPM event sync failure in 10.4.1

(DE453956, 31830934)

 

 

After the patch is installed, when this event is generated, the log will show:

 

Mar 31, 2020 11:23:22.457 (PoolThread-3: PC EventCache => domain ca-poller-01) (NetqosSyncLog) - (ERROR) - Caught IllegalArgumentException while parsing vardata for event 0x10a20

Additional Information

These fixes are included in the first bi monthly patch for 10.4.1 (Spectrum_10.04.01.BMP_10.4.101) and they are included in 10.4.2:

1. OOM issue with CAPM REST subscriptions

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=187713 

2. Illegal Argument error causing event sync to stop

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=187708

3. Enhanced processing of inventory sync

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=187906

 

If you need the fix for 10.3.2 and you have bi monthly patch BMP_10.3.202 installed, please install 10.3.2_PTF_10.3.257 and 10.3.2_PTF_10.3.258