Bug ID 991829: Continuous connection refused errors in restjavad

Last Modified: Feb 14, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AFM, APM, ASM, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2

Opened: Feb 09, 2021

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Continuous connection refused errors observed in restjavad. [com.f5.rest.workers..AsmConfigWorker] nanoTime:[879945045679087] threadId:[63] Exception:[org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused) [8100/tm/asm/owasp/task OWASPTaskScheduleWorker] Unexpected exception in getting all the polcies: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)

Impact

-- This issue causes a noisy log file of restjavad. -- This issue may cause the restart of restjavad due to out of memory error if the restjavad heap size is very low, such as 192MB.

Conditions

The errors are observed regardless of ASM provisioning.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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