EX SSL-VPN: Policy Replication fails on 10.6.3

03/26/2020 5 12133

DESCRIPTION:
EX SSL-VPN: Policy Replication fails on 10.6.3

RESOLUTION:

Problem Description:

Policy replication fails with high number of ACL rules and resources.

Post upgrade to 10.6.3 when we replicate the master says replication failed. On the recipients it logs a successful replication but the changes are left as pending and don't apply.
Also we get Java errors in AMC console until we restart mgmt-server.

*****snippet of management.log***********
Nov 27 05:24:27 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1 AMC: 2013-11-27 05:24:27 +0000 WARNING com.aventail.mgmt.gbladmin.conversations.SenderConversation - Connection failure trying to start replication conversation: ; nested exception is: <167> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
Nov 27 05:24:27 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1 AMC: 2013-11-27 05:24:27 +0000 ERROR com.aventail.mgmt.gbladmin.conversations.ReplicationSenderConversation - Policy replication to lab-internal-3 failed with error: CONNECTION_FAILED

Lot of Java exception errors.
There were java memory errors in: receiver-management.log:
Dec 3 05:20:04 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
Dec 3 05:39:36 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded

Nov 27 05:26:49 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1 AMC: 2013-11-27 05:26:49 +0000 VERBOSE com.aventail.mgmt.sql.Sql - Query to obtain local user list took 0.211 seconds
Nov 27 05:26:50 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1 AMC: 2013-11-27 05:26:50 +0000 ERROR com.aventail.mgmt.gbladmin.conversations.ReplicationSenderConversation - Policy replication to cpu3-lab-internal-4 failed with error: INSTALL_FAILED
Nov 27 05:26:57 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1 AMC: 2013-11-27 05:26:57 +0000 WARNING com.aventail.mgmt.gbladmin.conversations.ReplicationSenderConversation -


Resolution/Workaround:

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Tracking ID DTS #137424

SonicWall engineering fixed the issue with a workaround (Hand edit) along with a test hotfix. Please contact Technical support for the test-hotfix.

Root cause of the problem is JVM Out Of Memory during replication. To increase the memory allocation, please do the following on BOTH sender and receiver(s) nodes:

1. edit /usr/local/app/mgmt-server/bin/start.sh (line 107: add -Xmx512m after $JAVA_HOME/bin/java)
(start.sh attached)
2. #/etc/init.d/mgmt-server/restart
3. Try replicate, we should be able to replicate successfully.

Note: This is officially fixed in 10.6.5 and 10.7.1 already