Getting Failed to transmit data to/from the server, the target URL may be invalid when adding node to existing CA PAM cluster

Products

• CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM)

Issue/Introduction

We have planned to add out of cluster Node back to Production cluster, but while adding load configuration from member with the IP of the Replication Master in production, we are getting below error.

Error: Failed to transmit data to/from the server, the target URL may be invalid.

Environment

Release : 4.1.x

Cause

This error message is caused due to the missing Shared Key Passphrase on the CA PAM server that is being attempted to be added as part of the existing cluster.

Resolution

Copy and paste the Shared Key Passphrase from the existing cluster's Replication Master into the CA PAM node that is being attempted to be added to the existing cluster.