[PCA 2.x] Storage-network Upgrade Fails on Cisco Switches Backup with Error "Permission denied" (Doc ID 2710199.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 12, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

On Ethernet-based Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, when running storage network upgrade, while the precheck succeeded (pca_upgrader -V) but the real upgrade (pca_upgrader -U) failed.

[2020-08-27 12:17:01 208160] INFO (backplane_upgrade_utils:35) Backup spine switch configuration
[2020-08-27 12:17:01 208160] INFO (net_data_spine_factory:156) Running save_backup on all Cisco.
[2020-08-27 12:17:02 208160] INFO (connectionpool:735) Starting new HTTPS connection (1): 192.168.4.204
[2020-08-27 12:17:02 208160] DEBUG (connectionpool:383) "POST /api/aaaLogin.json HTTP/1.1" 200 901
[2020-08-27 12:17:02 208160] INFO (connectionpool:735) Starting new HTTPS connection (1): 192.168.4.204
[2020-08-27 12:17:10 208160] DEBUG (connectionpool:383) "POST /ins HTTP/1.1" 500 None
[2020-08-27 12:17:10 208160] ERROR (cisco:153) POST request to cisco switch 192.168.4.204 failed, status code 500 (/SpineSwitchConfig-192.168.4.204.cfg: Permission denied
***** Transfer of file aborted, Login failed*****
***** Transfer of file aborted *****)
[2020-08-27 12:17:10 208160] ERROR (cisco:154) {
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "error": {
    "code": -32602,
    "message": "Invalid params",
    "data": {
    "msg": "/SpineSwitchConfig-192.168.4.204.cfg: Permission denied\n*****
    Transfer of file aborted, Login failed*****\n***** Transfer of file aborted*****\n"
    }
},
"id": 1
}
[2020-08-27 12:17:10 208160] ERROR (cisco:158) Exception while POST request for Cisco Session POST request to cisco switch 192.168.4.204 failed, status code 500 (/SpineSwitchConfig-192.168.4.204.cfg: Permission denied 

Cause

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