What does "Exception: 500: Provider method implementation threw unexpected exception: com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.InternalServerError" log mean?

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Issue

  • Some failure log related to fence_vmware_rest occurred in the corosync.log as below. What does the log mean?
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [ Traceback (most recent call last): ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [   File "/usr/sbin/fence_vmware_rest", line 183, in <module> ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [     main() ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [   File "/usr/sbin/fence_vmware_rest", line 178, in main ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [     result = fence_action(conn, options, set_power_status, get_power_status, get_list) ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [   File "/usr/share/fence/fencing.py", line 861, in fence_action ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [     outlets = get_outlet_list(connection, options) ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [   File "/usr/sbin/fence_vmware_rest", line 36, in get_list ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [     res = send_command(conn, "vcenter/vm") ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [   File "/usr/sbin/fence_vmware_rest", line 123, in send_command ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [     raise Exception("{}: {}".format(rc, result["value"]["messages"][0]["default_message"])) ]
stonith-ng:   notice: operation_finished:    fence_vmware_rest_monitor_1:16499:stderr [ Exception: 500: Provider method implementation threw unexpected exception: com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.InternalServerError ]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8
  • Pacemaker cluster
  • VMware guest

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