I'm testing vCPE closed loop control in the SB07 environment. When Policy sends a VM restart message to APPC, APPC returns an error. Please see the two messages below.

The appc IP: 10.12.5.138

The message router IP: 10.12.5.127

Policy->APPC:

{
"body": {
"input": {
"common-header": {
"timestamp": "2018-05-15T15:22:40.888Z",
"api-ver": "2.00",
"originator-id": "22605a19-6ea7-44ac-b411-d8210f1d7165",
"request-id": "22605a19-6ea7-44ac-b411-d8210f1d7165",
"sub-request-id": "1",
"flags": {}
},
"action": "Restart",
"action-identifiers": {
"vnf-id": "8dcafbfe-8171-4b69-a31f-cfa07e3a843e"
}
}
},
"version": "2.0",
"rpc-name": "restart",
"correlation-id": "22605a19-6ea7-44ac-b411-d8210f1d7165-1",
"type": "request"
}

APPC->Policy:

{
"body": {
"output": {
"status": {
"code": 200,
"message": "UNEXPECTED ERROR - java.lang.NullPointerException"
},
"common-header": {
"api-ver": "2.00",
"flags": {},
"sub-request-id": "1",
"originator-id": "ebf9b639-56f3-43a8-a461-3b8496a49c61",
"timestamp": "2018-05-15T15:42:54.365Z",
"request-id": "ebf9b639-56f3-43a8-a461-3b8496a49c61"
}
}
},
"cambria.partition": "MSO",
"correlation-id": "ebf9b639-56f3-43a8-a461-3b8496a49c61-1",
"rpc-name": "restart",
"type": "response",
"version": "2.0"
}