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COTV-7605: Upgrade from ONTAP tools 10.3 to 10.5 might fail during the seeding script execution with a "connection refused" error. This issue can occur in both HA and non-HA environments.

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Issue

If the seeding script fails, the system rolls back the packages to ONTAP tools version 10.3. Error logs will display messages similar to the following:
[04:52:45][admin@rajneesy1:]$ cat ansible-perl-errors.log
17-11-2025_20:37 : The task 'Install otv-ng-registry' failed with output: 'non-zero return codenon-zero return code'
Mon Nov 17 20:37:55 2025 : Registry deployment has failed with exit code 512.
Mon Nov 17 20:37:55 2025 : Registry deployment has failed with error code 04055.
 
Mon Nov 24 20:25:49 2025 : seeding process has failed with exit code 0.
Mon Nov 24 20:25:49 2025 : seeding process has failed with error code 07108.
[04:52:51][admin@rajneesy1:]$ cat seeding.log
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:1045: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host 'x.x.x.x'. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: [https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1....#ssl-warnings]
  warnings.warn(
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:1045: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host 'x.x.x.x'''. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: [https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1....#ssl-warnings]
  warnings.warn(
2025-11-18 06:36:35,509 - INFO - Record not found: 404
2025-11-18 06:36:35,529 - INFO - Raw UUID: VMware-42 30 d8 87 f0 4b 1e f6-55 a5 14 83 14 99 a2 f1
2025-11-18 06:36:35,529 - INFO - Processed UUID: 4230d887f04b1ef655a514831499a2f1
2025-11-18 06:36:35,529 - INFO - Local UUID: 4230d887-f04b-1ef6-55a5-14831499a2f1
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:1045: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made to host 'x.x.x.x'''. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: [https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/1....#ssl-warnings]
  warnings.warn(
2025-11-18 06:36:35,650 - INFO - Status Code: 202
2025-11-24 20:25:48,315 - INFO - File is not encrypted, proceeding to the next step
2025-11-24 20:25:49,551 - ERROR - An error occurred: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='x.x.x.x''', port=8443): Max retries exceeded with url: /virtualization/api/v1/auth/login (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fa84a0e9390>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

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