Hi,

I tested our SSIM failover configuration and had the following error in the sesa-agent.log. I tested what happens when I turn off the main appliance. After the third attempt the agent stopped working and nothing happen. If I change the failover retry attempt to 1 everything works fine.

2009-11-10 13:20:57,046 INFO  [Logging] >>ForwardingProvider.sendEvents() - Exception: java.io.IOException: connection to manager failed, retry later (30) seconds.
2009-11-10 13:20:57,046 ERROR [Logging] java.io.IOException: connection to manager failed, retry later (30) seconds.
 at com.symantec.management.providers.config.ConfigProvider.getMgmtServerConnectionEx(ConfigProvider.java:2231)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.config.ConfigProvider.getMgmtServerConnection(ConfigProvider.java:2046)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.forwarder.SESAEventForwardingProvider.sendEvents(SESAEventForwardingProvider.java:386)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.forwarder.SESAEventForwardingProvider.forwardEvents(SESAEventForwardingProvider.java:234)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.sendEvents(PersistentAgentQueue.java:986)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.sendEvents(PersistentAgentQueue.java:958)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.run(PersistentAgentQueue.java:874)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

2009-11-10 13:21:07,062 INFO  [Logging] Response code = 500, URL = https://192.168.1.100:443/sesa/servlet/eventlogger
2009-11-10 13:21:07,062 INFO  [Logging] >>ForwardingProvider.sendEvents() - Exception: java.io.IOException: connection to manager failed, retry later (30) seconds.
2009-11-10 13:21:07,062 ERROR [Logging] java.io.IOException: connection to manager failed, retry later (30) seconds.
 at com.symantec.management.providers.config.ConfigProvider.getMgmtServerConnectionEx(ConfigProvider.java:2231)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.config.ConfigProvider.getMgmtServerConnection(ConfigProvider.java:2046)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.forwarder.SESAEventForwardingProvider.sendEvents(SESAEventForwardingProvider.java:386)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.forwarder.SESAEventForwardingProvider.forwardEvents(SESAEventForwardingProvider.java:234)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.sendEvents(PersistentAgentQueue.java:986)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.sendEvents(PersistentAgentQueue.java:958)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.run(PersistentAgentQueue.java:874)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

2009-11-10 13:21:17,078 INFO  [Logging] Response code = 500, URL = https://192.168.1.100:443/sesa/servlet/eventlogger
2009-11-10 13:21:17,078 INFO  [Logging] >>ForwardingProvider.sendEvents() - Exception: java.io.IOException: connection to manager failed, retry later (30) seconds.
2009-11-10 13:21:17,078 ERROR [Logging] java.io.IOException: connection to manager failed, retry later (30) seconds.
 at com.symantec.management.providers.config.ConfigProvider.getMgmtServerConnectionEx(ConfigProvider.java:2231)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.config.ConfigProvider.getMgmtServerConnection(ConfigProvider.java:2046)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.forwarder.SESAEventForwardingProvider.sendEvents(SESAEventForwardingProvider.java:386)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.forwarder.SESAEventForwardingProvider.forwardEvents(SESAEventForwardingProvider.java:234)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.sendEvents(PersistentAgentQueue.java:986)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.sendEvents(PersistentAgentQueue.java:958)
 at com.symantec.cas.agent.queue.PersistentAgentQueue.run(PersistentAgentQueue.java:874)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

2009-11-10 13:21:27,078 INFO  [Logging] Response code = 500, URL = https://192.168.1.100:443/sesa/servlet/eventlogger
2009-11-10 13:21:27,078 INFO  [Logging] Attempt (1) - Retrying failed connection: https://192.168.1.100:443/sesa/servlet/
2009-11-10 13:24:36,093 INFO  [Logging] >>ForwardingProvider.sendEvents() - Exception: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake
2009-11-10 13:24:36,093 ERROR [Logging] javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
 at com.symantec.management.util.SSL_Socket.createSocket(SSL_Socket.java:245)
 at com.symantec.management.util.SESAHttpConnection.connect(SESAHttpConnection.java:209)
 at com.symantec.management.util.SESAHttpConnection.connect(SESAHttpConnection.java:142)
 at com.symantec.management.providers.forwarder.SESAEventForwardingProvider$Connector.run(SESAEventForwardingProvider.java:1039)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly
 at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source)
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