Mediator shows as Failed or Degraded in Cloud Manager: unable to validate credentials
Applies to
- Cloud Manager
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
- Mediators
- AWS
Issue
- Cloud manager shows the HA status as degraded with
reason: Unknown mediator error.
- Mediator is up and running.
- Cloud Manager Server logs report
AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials
2022-08-26 22:30:19,565 UTC WARN [Update all CVOs statuses ] [MXRT5Qud] [ ] [System ] (oncloud-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-225) [AwsHaClusterStatusCalculator:79] Calculated DEGRADED status with reason: Unknown mediator error
2022-08-26 22:30:19,620 UTC INFO [Update all CVOs statuses ] [MXRT5Qud] [ ] [System ] (oncloud-akka.actor.default-dispatcher-231) [AwsHaClusterStatusCalculator:67] Mediator reported an error status: status code: 4, status message: AWS error Unable to validate credentials returned for describe vpcs from aws:
An error occurred (AuthFailure) when calling the DescribeVpcs operation: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials