Bootstrap catalog fails while doing the copy cluster on Performance Management.

Products

• Network Observability
• CA Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

When running copyCluster to copy the Vertica database to a new system, the copyCluster was failing with the following error.

"While boostrapping catalog: Unable to load catalog"

Error: Catalog bootstrap failed.

CopyCluster FAILED.

Environment

DX NetOps Performance Management 23.3, 24.3

Cause

The Target Systems were rebooted in the middle of the initial time the customer ran copyCluster and that corrupted the database. This was an initial empty database on the target systems.

Resolution

The following steps needed to be done to resolve the issue.

On the target system:

1. Drop the database on the target systems.

2. Recreate the database on the target systems. 

3. Re-run the copyCluster command.