Automation app health affected for VRA objects

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• Symptoms of the alert are similar to: "The Critical symptom Automation Configuration Event has been observed on <Automation LB> Automation Config Notification - Automation node <automationnodeFQDN> is down"
• Issue continued after applying kb "Automation app health is affected" event based alert triggered for Automation App object 
• Aria Automation nodes are up and running. 
• Pinging Aria automation nodes from Aria Operations node/Cloud proxy fails.

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.x

Aria Automation 8.18.x

Cause

Ping needs to be enabled for each Aria Automation node

Resolution

Enable ping for Aria Automation nodes