Error in authentication_mixin.rb [ undefined method "authtype" for NilClass ]

Issue

There appears to be a periodic authentication check for hosts but we never input credentials because we are not currently leveraging smartstate. The error that is arising is during the authentication an error is raised :

[----] E, [2016-09-30T14:28:20.159707 #121870:130f998] ERROR -- : MIQ(MiqQueue#deliver) Message id: [1000012731760], Error: [undefined method `authtype' for nil:NilClass]
[----] E, [2016-09-30T14:28:20.159937 #121870:130f998] ERROR -- : [NoMethodError]: undefined method `authtype' for nil:NilClass  Method:[rescue in deliver]