Symptoms:
- Configuring Replicator Service instances during the initial configuration of the Cloud Service fails with a connection refused error over port 8043 to the Replicator Service instances.
- In the /opt/vmware/h4/manager/log/manager.log file on the Cloud Replication Management Appliance, you see entries similar to:
2021-01-20 08:29:53.229 ERROR - [UI-########-####-####-####-########84da-Qe] [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-6] c.v.h.c.c.error.ExceptionAdvisorBase : A POST request from root[10.X.X.X] to /replicators failed.
com.vmware.h4.api.error.exceptions.client.ConnectionRefusedException: Connection refused.
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:490)
at com.vmware.h4.api.error.GenericServerExceptionProvider.get(GenericServerExceptionProvider.java:118)
...
- In the /opt/vmware/h4/replicator/log/replicator.log on the Cloud Replicator Appliance, you see entries similar to:
2021-01-20 09:33:49.037 ERROR - [UI-########-####-####-####-########6d36-b6-1J-Mr] [https-jsse-nio-8043-exec-7] c.v.h.c.c.error.ExceptionAdvisorBase : A POST request from root[cloud_VM_ip] to /managers failed.
com.vmware.exception.ConnectionRefusedException: Connect to 127.0.0.2:8044 [/127.0.0.2] failed: Connection refused (Connection refused)
at com.vmware.exception.converter.ClientExceptionConverter.convertException(ClientExceptionConverter.java:45)
at com.vmware.rest.client.AbstractRestClient.genericExchange(AbstractRestClient.java:158)
at com.vmware.rest.client.json.RestClient.exchange(RestClient.java:97)
...
Note: The preceding log excerpts are only examples. Date, time, and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment.