The fencing agent fence_vmware_soap errors with the following message"Failed: Unable to obtain correct plug status or plug is not available"

Issue

• The fencing agent fence_vmware_soap errors with the following message Failed: Unable to obtain correct plug status or plug is not available
• When a VMware virtual machine cluster node is fenced it errors with the following message when using fence_vmware_soap fencing agent: fenced[2118]: fence rhel63vm01 dev 0.0 agent fence_vmware_soap result: error from agent
• Command 'fence_node' will fail with the following message:

[root@rhel63vm02 ~]# fence_node -vv rhel63vm01
fence rhel63vm01 dev 0.0 agent fence_vmware_soap result: error from agent
agent args: ssl=on uuid=564D8BD5-7A07-E6E1-1CF3-6F879A7A00C7 nodename=rhel63vm01 agent=fence_vmware_soap ipaddr=vmware.example.com login=administrator passwd=mypassword ssl=1
fence rhel63vm01 failed