Error "Secured communication is disabled on MDM" during Configure phase.

Hi all,

trying to install ScaleIO using the installation gateway on 6 servers, all running fresh installs of Server 2012 R2. I followed the pre-install guidelines, installed Java and Python on the 3 MDM nodes, however, when I get to the configure phase I get an error on the "approve MDM certificate" on the 3 nodes that are MDM.

Most of the settings are via the installation wizard, I am not using a config file yet as I want to look around the GUI first before making changes or setting things.

The error is

Secured communication is disabled on MDM. Refer to the installation guide.

I've googled and haven't come across this anywhere on the EMC community network.

I added port allowances to the firewalls of each server, and then I just turned the firewalls completely off to see if that was the issue. No go. All nodes are able to ping each other just fine, and services are running on each of them(at least the services that have been installed). WMI is also running just fine.

Any ideas?

Full error is below:

2016-04-11 15:09:10,101 [executor-53] WARN c.e.s.s.i.s.i.c.WMINodeConnection - Invalid component received from WMI 172.31.255.6 - Gateway

2016-04-11 15:09:20,824 [http-nio-443-exec-8] INFO c.e.s.s.w.c.i.ProcessPhaseController - ==== Install Process ended ====

2016-04-11 15:09:20,889 [executor-54] INFO c.e.e.c.service.CommandService - getAndApproveNodeCertificate called on 172.31.255.2

2016-04-11 15:09:20,967 [executor-54] ERROR c.e.e.c.service.CommandService - Failed retrieving certificate of 172.31.255.2

com.emc.ecs.net.exceptions.SecureConnectionDisabledException: null

at com.emc.ecs.net.LayeredProtocolConnection.openSocket(LayeredProtocolConnection.java:606) ~[ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.ecs.net.LayeredProtocolConnection.open(LayeredProtocolConnection.java:416) ~[ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.ecs.net.LayeredProtocolConnection.getHostUntrustedCertificate(LayeredProtocolConnection.java:846) ~[ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.ecs.net.LayeredProtocolConnection.getHostCertificate(LayeredProtocolConnection.java:833) ~[ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.s3g.scaleio.im.services.installation.configurators.CommandServiceMdmConnection.getAndApproveNodeCertificate(CommandServiceMdmConnection.java:4438) ~[ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.s3g.scaleio.domain.installation.commands.ApproveMdmCertificateCommand.executeMdmCommand(ApproveMdmCertificateCommand.java:27) [ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.s3g.scaleio.domain.installation.commands.ApproveMdmCertificateCommand.executeMdmCommand(ApproveMdmCertificateCommand.java:18) [ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.s3g.scaleio.domain.installation.commands.MdmCommand.executeCommand(MdmCommand.java:91) [ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at com.emc.s3g.scaleio.domain.installation.commands.BaseCommand.call(BaseCommand.java:323) [ams-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:na]

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.8.0_77]

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) [na:1.8.0_77]

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.8.0_77]

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) [na:1.8.0_77]

2016-04-11 15:09:20,967 [executor-54] ERROR c.e.e.c.service.CommandService - Failed to get MDM certificate from all ips: [172.31.255.2]