Artifact Download MD5 is different from the registered MD5

Products

• CA Release Automation - Release Operations Center (Nolio)

Issue/Introduction

A deployment, with artifacts is generating an error during the artifact distribution phase. The error is: 

Failed to download artifact [Artifact [<artifact definition>.<artifact type>'ver. <version>]] to retrieval agent [<retrieval agent name>]. Local agent error is [Artifact - [<artifact definition>.<artifact type>'ver. <version>]] is not set to allow modifications and it's MD5 is different from the registered MD5 for this artifacts version]

Environment

Release : 6.7

 

Cause

The artifact was created without the "Allow Modifications" set to true. The description of this flag's settings can be found here: ArtifactsApiDto

Resolution

If you want to allow a previously deployed version of the artifact to be changed and deployed under the same "Version":

• Navigate to Artifact Management
• Select the appropriate Application
• Navigate to the appropriate Artifact Type -> Artifact Definition -> Artifact Version
• Select the checkbox "Allow Modification" 
• Click Save

 

Additional Information

This option to Allow Modification, or not, is there to protect the integrity of artifacts that have been deployed elsewhere.