Exception encountered while creating slive with 1 VM and 1 bare metal node

[lnevers@bbn.com]

This problem occurs at both RENCI and BBN rack:

$ omni.py createsliver -a eg-gpo EG-CT-2 EG-CT-2-gpo.rspec 
INFO:omni:Loading config file /home/lnevers/.gcf/omni_config
INFO:omni:Using control framework pg
INFO:omni:Slice urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+slice+EG-CT-2 expires on 2012-12-08 15:05:29 UTC
INFO:omni:Substituting AM nickname eg-gpo with URL https://bbn-hn.exogeni.net:11443/orca/xmlrpc, URN unspecified_AM_URN
INFO:omni:Substituting AM nickname eg-gpo with URL https://bbn-hn.exogeni.net:11443/orca/xmlrpc, URN unspecified_AM_URN
INFO:omni:Creating sliver(s) from rspec file EG-CT-2-gpo.rspec for slice urn:publicid:IDN+pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com+slice+EG-CT-2
WARNING:omni:Failed CreateSliver for slice EG-CT-2 at 
https://bbn-hn.exogeni.net:11443/orca/xmlrpc.  Error from Aggregate: code 2:
 ERROR: Exception encountered: java.lang.NullPointerException.
INFO:omni: ------------------------------------------------------------
INFO:omni: Completed createsliver:
  Options as run:
		aggregate: ['eg-gpo']
		framework: pg

  Args: createsliver EG-CT-2 EG-CT-2-gpo.rspec
  Result Summary: Failed CreateSliver for slice EG-CT-2 at 
  https://bbn-hn.exogeni.net:11443/orca/xmlrpc.  Error from Aggregate: 
  code 2: ERROR: Exception encountered: java.lang.NullPointerException. 
INFO:omni: ============================================================

Attaching RSpec that causes this failure.

[lnevers@bbn.com]

This is an error handling scenario. There is no insight into the real issue, which is the bare metal node is not available.

[lnevers@bbn.com]

This ticket is capturing an enhancement request for better error reporting for error messages when SM does not have the requested resource SM, which is similarly captured in ticket #118, closing this ticket as duplicate.