Cannot verify availability of the object store from node: Access denied

Applies to

• ONTAP 9
• Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
• Storage Grid (SG)
• System Manager
• Fabric Pool
• BlueXP
• BlueXP Backup and Recovery

Issue

Getting 'Access denied' error during Fabric Pool/Cloud Tiering or clouod backup related operations such as: 

 1. Trying to create a new Composite Aggregate via BlueXP

2. Trying to set up Backup and Recovery via BlueXP

3. Trying to add a cloud tier to ONTAP

1. ONTAP CLI

cluster1::> object-store config create -object-store-name my-s3-store -provider-type AWS_S3 -server s3.amazonaws.com -ssl-enabled true -port 443 -container-name jsiva-fp -ipspace Default -access-key <access-key> -secret-password <secret-password>

  (storage aggregate object-store config create)

 

Error: command failed: Cannot verify availability of the object store from node cluster1-02. Reason: Access denied.

4. Trying to attach a cloud tier to a local tier

1. ONTAP CLI

cluster1::> storage aggregate object-store attach -aggregate aggr2 -object-store-name StorageAccount 

Warning: Once an aggregate becomes a FabricPool, there is no way to reverse the

         process and make it a non-FabricPool. Do you want to continue?

          {y|n}: y

Error: command failed: Cannot verify availability of the object store from node cluster1-01. Reason: Access denied.

2. ONTAP System Manager