PowerScale: After Provisioning Connectivity, Post Provisioning Steps Failed

Summary: After Dell SupportAssist (Connectivity) provisioning finishes, an error message displays: "Error: Provisioning was successful, however some post provisioning steps failed."

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Symptoms

Scenario 1:

Connectivity should automatically disable Secure Remote Services. Sometimes the automation is unable to disable Secure Remote Services, so an error is present, such as the ones listed here:

OneFS 9.9.0.0 and earlier:

Powerscale-1# # isi supportassist provision view
 
Provision Status:
 
   Current State: COMPLETED
       Sub-state: completed
Success or Fail: Fail
Percent Complete: 100%
           Error: Provisioning was successful, however some post provisioning steps failed: Failed to disable SRS

Or:

Powerscale-1# # isi supportassist provision view
 
Provision Status:
 
   Current State: COMPLETED
       Sub-state: completed
Success or Fail: Fail
Percent Complete: 100%
           Error: RuntimeError: Failed to connect to REST server: isi_papi_d service is unavailable

In OneFS 9.10 and later, the command to check is now:

Powerscale-1# isi connectivity provision view

Scenario 2:

In this scenario, Secure Remote Services did not stop running, as seen here:

Powerscale-1# # isi esrs view
Warning: Secure Remote Service is at end of service life. Upgrade connectivity to Dell Technologies connectivity services as soon as possible by using 'isi connectivity'. See https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000152189/powerscale-onefs-info-hubs cluster administration guides for more information.
                                    Enabled: Yes <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
                       Primary ESRS Gateway: 1.2.3.4
                     Secondary ESRS Gateway: 
                        Alert on Disconnect: Yes
                       Gateway Access Pools: subnet0.pool0
          Gateway Connectivity Check Period: 60
License Usage Intelligence Reporting Period: 86400
                           Download Enabled: No
                       SRS Download Enabled: Yes
          ESRS File Download Timeout Period: 50
           ESRS File Download Error Retries: 3
              ESRS File Download Chunk Size: 1000000
             ESRS Download Filesystem Limit: 80
        Offline Telemetry Collection Period: 7200
                Gateway Connectivity Status: Disconnected <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Cause

Scenario 1:

The daemons that control Secure Remote Services are not in the expected state, and require manual intervention.

Scenario 2:

Secure Remote Services is not in the expected state, and must be disabled manually.

Resolution

Scenario 1:

Generally the issue happens when the two daemons that control Secure Remote Services are in a respected state. Verify that they are in the correct status:

PowerScale-1# isi services -a | egrep 'esrs|rsapi'
   isi_esrs_d           ESRS Service Daemon                      Disabled
   isi_rsapi_d          Remote-Service API Daemon                Enabled 

This is how Secure Remote Services would look after enabling Connectivity:

Powerscale-1# isi esrs view
Warning: Secure Remote Service is at end of service life. Upgrade connectivity to Dell Technologies connectivity services as soon as possible by using 'isi connectivity'. See https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000152189/powerscale-onefs-info-hubs cluster administration guides for more information.
                                    Enabled: No
                       Primary ESRS Gateway: 1.2.3.4
                     Secondary ESRS Gateway: 
                        Alert on Disconnect: Yes
                       Gateway Access Pools: subnet0.pool0
          Gateway Connectivity Check Period: 60
License Usage Intelligence Reporting Period: 86400
                           Download Enabled: No
                       SRS Download Enabled: Yes
          ESRS File Download Timeout Period: 50
           ESRS File Download Error Retries: 3
              ESRS File Download Chunk Size: 1000000
             ESRS Download Filesystem Limit: 80
        Offline Telemetry Collection Period: 7200
                Gateway Connectivity Status: Disconnected

The isi_rsapi_d daemon should be enabled, if it is in the disabled state, enable it with this command:

Powerscale-1# isi services -a isi_rsapi_d enable

The isi_esrs_d daemon should be disabled after provisioning Connectivity, disable it with this command:

Powerscale-1# isi services -a isi_esrs_d disable

Verify isi_rsapi_d is now running on every node, and that there are no more isi_esrs_d daemons running with this command:

PowerScale-1# isi_for_array -s "ps -auxww | egrep 'isi_rsapi|isi_esrs' | grep -v grep"

The output should return something similar to this:

Powerscale-2# isi_for_array -s "ps -auxww | egrep 'isi_rsapi|isi_esrs' | grep -v grep"
Powerscale-1: root    2869   0.0  0.8 108068  46684  -  Ss   Thu00       0:03.86 /usr/sbin/isi_rsapi_d
Powerscale-2: root    3015   0.0  0.6 121852  35640  -  Ss   Wed00       0:05.96 /usr/sbin/isi_rsapi_d
Powerscale-3: root    3056   0.0  0.6 102756  36972  -  Ss   Wed07       0:04.32 /usr/sbin/isi_rsapi_d
Powerscale-4: root    2743   0.0  0.6 108676  36412  -  Ss   Tue21       0:04.69 /usr/sbin/isi_rsapi_d
Powerscale-2#

If the output does not reflect the example output, initiate a gather and contact Dell Technical Support.

If the output looks the same as the example, provision again using a new Access Key and Pin.

Scenario 2:

Try to disable Secure Remote Services with this command:

PowerScale-1# isi esrs modify --enabled=false --force

If the command returns to the prompt without an error, check the status:

Powerscale-1# # isi esrs view
Warning: Secure Remote Service is at end of service life. Upgrade connectivity to Dell Technologies connectivity services as soon as possible by using 'isi connectivity'. See https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000152189/powerscale-onefs-info-hubs cluster administration guides for more information.
                                    Enabled: No <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
                       Primary ESRS Gateway: 1.2.3.4
                     Secondary ESRS Gateway: 
                        Alert on Disconnect: Yes
                       Gateway Access Pools: subnet0.pool0
          Gateway Connectivity Check Period: 60
License Usage Intelligence Reporting Period: 86400
                           Download Enabled: No
                       SRS Download Enabled: Yes
          ESRS File Download Timeout Period: 50
           ESRS File Download Error Retries: 3
              ESRS File Download Chunk Size: 1000000
             ESRS Download Filesystem Limit: 80
        Offline Telemetry Collection Period: 7200
                Gateway Connectivity Status: Disconnected 

A new provision can be tried, and use a new Access Key and Pin using the Software ID (SWID) of the cluster.

If the command errors and fails to disable, initiate a gather and contact Dell Technical Support.

This issue is expected to be addressed in a future OneFS code release.

Affected Products

Isilon, PowerScale OneFS
Article Properties
Article Number: 000401974
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2025
Version:  1
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