topic SVM DR: Failed to reactivate the SVM. Reason: undefined in ONTAP Discussions

SVM DR: Failed to reactivate the SVM. Reason: undefined

manelo90 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:56:53 GMT

Hi All,

I'm at a stump. I'm playing around with SVM DR as I want to implement it for DRP but its giving me an issue when trying to go back to the Source SVM and sadly it gives me a Reason Undefined error when doing it via System Manager.

Strange thing is when I run the process manually via CLI it works.

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.pow-dap/GUID-636DEBE4-31FB-49BA-931D-10911E6F70C5.html

Do you guys know how I can find out what exactly that Reason Undefined message means?

Both clusters are on 9.6P8, volume is unencrypted, first two times I tried volume efficiency was on and inline too.

Re: SVM DR: Failed to reactivate the SVM. Reason: undefined

GidonMarcus — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:19:31 GMT

Hi,

can you see any info in the logs or jobs?

job show -fields * event log show

Re: SVM DR: Failed to reactivate the SVM. Reason: undefined

manelo90 — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:39:35 GMT

Event log show displays nothing for today/right after i try to reactivate source SVM and "job show " results are in attached log file.

NOTE: Well as I was writing above response it hit me, I see a line that says "unclaimed admin" so it occurred to me maybe the issue is with my domain admin account so I tried the local cluster admin and surprise, I couldn't log in (I think maybe my HQ changed the password without notifying me)

Anyways so I changed the local admin password and logged in with that account and voila! SVM DR is now working. Now maybe I missed it in documentation but does SVM DR only work using local admin account?