Aria Automation unable to start by Aria Suite Lifecycle with error code LCMVRAVACONFIG590070

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Aria Automation (Version 8.18.x) is experiencing intermittent startup failures, specifically generating error code LCMVRAVACONFIG590070.

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18.x

Cause

The intermittent startup failure is caused by a timing conflict during the power-on process of Aria Automation. 
When this issue happened, following message can be seen in both deploy.log(Aria Automation) and  vmware_vrlcm.log(Aria Suite Lifecycle):

+ vracli cluster exec -- bash -c /opt/scripts/set_permissions_and_ownership.py
executing bash on command-executor-q7xxz failed: error: Internal error occurred: error sending request: Post "https:<IP Address>?command=run-on-execd&command=--&command=bash&command=-c&command=/opt/scripts/set_permissions_and_ownership.py&error=1&output=1": dial tcp <IP Address>:10250: connect: connection refused

Resolution

Currently, there is no permanent fix or patch available for this issue. The recommended workaround is to perform a manual restart of Aria Automation when this issue happens.