The following error is reported when attempting to run get a snapshot of Authentication Services
ERROR: Failed to retrieve time from default server.
ERROR: VAS_ERR_FAILURE: Unspecified failure
Failed to get time from <domain> Caused by:
SYSERR-17: File exists
Authentication Services is having problems clearing out Domain Controller's which it can’t connect to. (possibly after a Disaster Recovery test)
Run the following command
/opt/quest/bin/vastool flush statedir
followed by a rejoin
/opt/quest/bin/vastool -u <administrator> join -f <domain>
After that run the snapshot script
/opt/quest/libexec/vas/scripts/vas_snapshot.sh
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