Connect-CrmOnline - intermittent connection failure

[ryan950ng]

Hi,

I am using the Connect-CrmOnline to connect to the server in my Gitlab pipeline, but the connection will fail intermittently.
Sometimes it works after a few retry.

    Import-Module Microsoft.Xrm.Data.PowerShell
    Set-CrmConnectionTimeout -TimeoutInSeconds 600
    $conn.OrganizationWebProxyClient.Endpoint.Binding.SendTimeout.TotalMinutes
    
    Connect-CrmOnline -ConnectionTimeoutInSeconds 600 -ClientSecret $oAuthClientSecret -OAuthClientId $oAuthClientId -ServerUrl $CRMDestinationUrl

This is the error returned:

WARNING: Please reconnect to the service after setting the connection timeout or the new timeout will *not* be used for
 operations.
IsReady                             : False
IsBatchOperationsAvailable          : False
MaxRetryCount                       : 10
RetryPauseTime                      : 00:00:05
Authority                           : 
ActiveAuthenticationType            : ClientSecret
OAuthUserId                         : 
TenantId                            : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
EnvironmentId                       : 
ConnectedOrgId                      : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
CrmConnectOrgUriActual              : https://[Masked]/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc
ConnectedOrgFriendlyName            : 
ConnectedOrgUniqueName              : 
ConnectedOrgVersion                 : 
SdkVersionProperty                  : 9.2.47.9489
CallerId                            : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
CallerAADObjectId                   : 
DisableCrossThreadSafeties          : False
SessionTrackingId                   : 
ForceServerMetadataCacheConsistency : False
LastCrmError                        : One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while sending the request. => 
                                      Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection attempt failed because 
                                      the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or 
                                      established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 
                                      40.119.215.132:443ERROR REQUESTING Token FROM THE Authentication context - 
                                      General ADAL Error
                                      One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while sending the request. => 
                                      Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection attempt failed because 
                                      the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or 
                                      established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 
                                      40.119.215.132:443One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while 
                                      sending the request. => Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection 
                                      attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a 
                                      period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has 
                                      failed to respond 40.119.215.132:443Unable to connect to CRM: An error occurred 
                                      while sending the request.
                                      One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while sending the request. => 
                                      Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection attempt failed because 
                                      the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or 
                                      established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 
                                      40.119.215.132:443Unable to Login to Dynamics CRM
                                      Unable to Login to Dynamics CRMOrganizationWebProxyClient is null
                                      OrganizationWebProxyClient is null
An error has occurred: One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while sending the request. => Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 40.119.215.132:443ERROR REQUESTING Token FROM THE Authentication context - General ADAL Error
One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while sending the request. => Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 40.119.215.132:443One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while sending the request. => Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 40.119.215.132:443Unable to connect to CRM: An error occurred while sending the request.
One or more errors occurred. => An error occurred while sending the request. => Unable to connect to the remote server => A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 40.119.215.132:443Unable to Login to Dynamics CRM
Unable to Login to Dynamics CRMOrganizationWebProxyClient is null
OrganizationWebProxyClient is null************ NullReferenceException - ExecuteAsync : AsyncImportRequest |=> Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.[TerminalFailure] Failed to Execute Command - ExecuteAsync : RequestID=[Masked] : AsyncImportRequest duration=00:00:00.0117927 ExceptionMessage = Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

The confusing part is due to the intermittent failure, and I have tried timeout and it's still having the same error.

[seanmcne]

It looks to be an error stating the request to acquire an auth token failed due to a timeout - you could use a try/catch to retry the connection on a failure to acquire an auth token.

A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 40.119.215.132:443 ERROR REQUESTING Token FROM THE Authentication context - General ADAL Error One or more errors occurred.

[ryan950ng]

Few things that I have tried:

• try catch but unable to catch the failure
• retry on the pipeline, continue to fail
• ping the server before connecting, if the ping fails the connection fails too
• sleep for 30s before running the connection

None of the method is working