error when running fail-over make-primary
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error when running fail-over make-primary

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Article ID: 271699

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Products

Management Center - VA Management Center

Issue/Introduction

- While running failover make-primary an error thrown that says: 

Management Center service is required to be active.  Please ensure service is started and try again.
An error occurred while making this node primary.

-     Management Center Service is running more than 5 minutes since last reboot or restart. 

-    Administrator configured couple of remote IPs in security allowed-hosts settings 

 

Environment

MC versions:

3.3.4.1,  3.3.3.1, 3.2.x and lower.

 

Cause

Management Center unable to allow itself to its service when there are remote IPs added to CLI security allowed-hosts settings 

Resolution

Add loopback address in security allowed-hosts settings . 

 

e.g.

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security allowed-hosts add 127.0.0.1 

 

 

Additional Information

security allowed-hosts add 127.0.0.1 should only be used if conditions mentioned in issue/introduction AND environment are all true