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EMS secd.conn.auth.failure from specific HA Pair or node

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Domain Tunnel Authentication

Issue

  • EMS messages noticed for specific ONTAP nodes in the cluster:

[node-04: secd:secd.conn.auth.failure:notice]: Vserver (vserver1) could not make a connection over the network to server (ip 10.0.0.1, port 88). Error: No route to host ().

[node-04: secd: secd.conn.auth.failure:notice]: Vserver (vserver1) could not make a connection over the network to server (ip 10.0.0.1, port 88). Error: Can't assign requested address (). 

[node-04: secd:secd.conn.auth.failure:notice]: Vserver (vserver1) could not make a connection over the network to server (ip 10.0.0.1, port 88). Error: Operation timed out().

[node-04: secd: secd.kerberos.preauth:error]: A Kerberos pre-authentication failure occurred for SVM (vserver1) due to invalid credentials for users@Domain.LOCAL. 

[node-04: secd: secd.cifsAuth.problem:error]: vserver (vserver1) General CIFS authentication problem. Error: Ontap admin cifs authentication basic procedure failed
 [ 16 ms] Successfully connected to ip 10.0.0.1, port 88 using TCP 
 [ 63] Successfully connected to ip 10.0.0.1, port 88 using TCP 
 **[ 106] FAILURE: Could not authenticate as 'users@Domain.LOCAL': Invalid Credentials (KRB5KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_FAILED). 
 [ 143] Kerberos authentication failed. Skipping NTLM
 [ 143] Ontap-admin-login-cifs failed"

  • Network configuration:

::> network interface show
Logical    Status     Network            Current       Current Is
Vserver     Interface  Admin/Oper Address/Mask       Node          Port    Home
----------- ---------- ---------- ------------------ ------------- ------- ----
vserver1
vserver1a_client up/up   10.0.0.1/24      node-05     a0b     true
vserver1b_client up/up   10.4.1.2/24      node-06     a0b     true
vserver1c_client up/up   10.4.1.6/24      node-05     a0b     true
vserver1d_client up/up   10.4.1.7/24      node-06     a0b     true

Note: node-04 is reporting the EMS alerts and does not have configured LIFs

 

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