VMware Identity Manager Active Directory validation is failing.

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

After providing valid Active Directory binding account credentials, You might encounter an error.

Connector communication failed with response: Circuit breaker...

Environment

VMware Identity Manager 3.3.7

Cause

A high amount of unassigned shards is visible on the VMware Identity Manager health page.

Resolution

• Assign unassigned shards back to the cluster using the KB
• If Unassigned shards are in grate number or it is a single node the shards can be deleted with the command:
  curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cat/shards | grep UNASSIGNED | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -i curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/{}"