Target Pod is Demoted

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Expected consistency group 'e184134e-5a94-9f76-5c53-ae33e6df93d5' not found in SRA's 'queryReplicationSettings' response.

During a reprotect, the SRA ensures that the environment is ready for recovery. The SRA only removes tags from the source pod--as that removal will propagate the tag removal to the volumes in the target pod. If the target pod happens to be promoted though the tags will not go away until the target pod is demoted and this will cause the target to be in an unexpected state in what is referred to as a promotedTarget by SRM. At the end of a reprotected it should be a demotedTarget. The SRA returns that status because not only is the pod promoted, but it also has the tags indicating the demotion:

This will cause an error during the last step of the reprotection (synchronize storage) with the following error:

The reprotection will still succeed but with this warning. You will also see an error in the device discovery:

Once you demote the target pod...

Run a device discovery...

The warning will go away: