TACACS Detected 'Invalid Argument'

Posted on in Networking

As always, I've changed pertinent details for reasons.

I was working on an ASR the other day and received the follow error:

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K(config-tacacs-host)# commit
Fri Jul 29 12:55:46.243 PDT

% Failed to commit one or more configuration items during a pseudo-atomic
operation. All changes made have been reverted. Please issue 'show configuration
failed [inheritance]' from this session to view the errors
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K(config-tacacs-host)# show configuration failed
Fri Jul 29 12:55:55.421 PDT
!! SEMANTIC ERRORS: This configuration was rejected by
!! the system due to semantic errors. The individual
!! errors with each failed configuration command can be
!! found below.

tacacs-server host 10.0.0.2 port 49
!!% 'TACACS' detected the 'fatal' condition 'Invalid Argument'
!
end

The problem here is that the tacacs daemon thinks the configuration contains an invalid argument. It doesn't. So, restart tacacs:

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K# show proc | inc tacacs
Fri Jul 29 12:56:32.376 PDT
1142   1    2  108K  16 Sigwaitinfo 7399:06:34:0893    0:00:00:0109 tacacsd
1142   2    0  108K  10 Receive     7399:06:35:0099    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   3    2  108K  10 Nanosleep      0:00:05:0940    0:00:00:0057 tacacsd
1142   4    1  108K  10 Receive     7399:06:34:0957    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   5    1  108K  10 Receive        0:00:00:0664    0:00:41:0447 tacacsd
1142   6    1  108K  10 Receive     2057:20:44:0638    0:00:44:0805 tacacsd
1142   7    2  108K  10 Receive     1167:26:53:0781    0:01:02:0991 tacacsd
1142   8    3  108K  10 Receive     1167:26:51:0567    0:01:29:0541 tacacsd
1142   9    2  108K  10 Receive      403:35:55:0206    0:01:09:0700 tacacsd
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K# process restart tacacsd
Fri Jul 29 12:56:54.768 PDT
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K# show proc | inc tacacs
Fri Jul 29 12:56:58.455 PDT
1142   1    3   64K  16 Sigwaitinfo    0:00:03:0806    0:00:00:0069 tacacsd
1142   2    1   64K  10 Receive        0:00:03:0998    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   3    3   64K  10 Nanosleep      0:00:03:0977    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   4    1   64K  10 Receive        0:00:03:0867    0:00:00:0002 tacacsd
1142   5    3   64K  10 Receive        0:00:03:0818    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   6    2   64K  16 Receive        0:00:03:0818    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   7    1   64K  16 Receive        0:00:03:0818    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   8    3   64K  16 Receive        0:00:03:0818    0:00:00:0000 tacacsd
1142   9    3   64K  10 Receive        0:00:00:0673    0:00:00:0003 tacacsd

And try again:

RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K# config t
Fri Jul 29 12:57:04.787 PDT
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K(config)# tacacs-server host 10.0.0.2 port 49
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K(config-tacacs-host)# commit
Fri Jul 29 12:57:20.627 PDT
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR9K(config-tacacs-host)#

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