SMHV scheduled tasks not running after IDS software was installed
Applies to
- SnapManager for Hyper-V (SMHV)
- Windows Operating System
- Intruder Detection System (IDS)
Issue
- SMHV scheduled tasks are triggered in Task Scheduler but fail to trigger any backup operations after IDS protection software was installed in the cluster nodes.
- On demand backups jobs triggered from the SMHV GUI complete successfully.
The following error message can be found in the Windows Application logs:
MM/DD/YYYY,00:15:05.0212218,Error,SnapMgrServiceHost,106,"SnapManager for Hyper-V backup failed to complete
An error occured while executing SnapManager backup job.
Job: new-backup -ds DatasetName -pid DatasetName -h Hyper-V Cluster -scid xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx
Details: An error occured while invoking the powershell cmdlet.
Input Not Valid, An Exception occurred while validating Input.
Details : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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