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Error in Windows Event Viewer "Witness Client failed to register with Witness Server"

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • CIFS
  • Continuous Availability (CA) 
  • Witness Protocol

Issue

  • Error in Windows Event Viewer "Witness Client failed to register with Witness Server"
  • In the packet trace when Windows client try to register witness IP the following error is present:
 
No.   Source        Destination    Protocol    Info
44    10.10.10.118  10.10.10.66    WITNESS     Register request
45    10.10.10.66   10.10.10.118   WITNESS     Register response, Error: WERR_INVALID_PARAMETER

 

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