3581369 - SAP cloud connector - Push from master to shadow failed. See logs on master side for details

When establishing an HA connection from the shadow instance, the error message "Push from master to shadow failed. See logs on master side for details" appears.

In the shadow instance's scc_core.trc, the following error is observed:

#ERROR#com.sap.scc.ha#com.sap.scc.ha.PingToMaster#          #Shadow 24hlvt7w: Initial push request failed with com.sap.scc.servlets.RequestFailureExecution$IllegalState: Push from master to shadow failed. See logs on master side for details. [Push from master to shadow failed. See logs on master side for details.]
com.sap.scc.servlets.RequestFailureExecution$IllegalState: Push from master to shadow failed. See logs on master side for details.
    at com.sap.scc.ha.PingToMaster.initPush(PingToMaster.java:514)

In the master instance's scc_core.trc, the following error is observed:

#WARN#com.sap.scc.ha#scc-init-push-24hlv97o#          #master 24hlv97o: Initial push failed: Data transfer to shadow system failed. See 'Log And Trace Files' and in particular scc_core.trc for details. Associated entries were logged
com.sap.scc.ha.PushRequestException: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to invoke the method com.sap.scc.util.KeyStoreFile.toByteArray() of a null object loaded from local variable 'ksf'
    at com.sap.scc.ha.PushRequest.failed(PushRequest.java:107)

SAP Cloud Connector 2.17.2

Cloud Connector, master instance, shadow instance, connection issue, HA Communication, Reconnected shadow system , KBA , BC-MID-SCC , SAP Cloud Connector On-Demand/On-Premise Connectivity , Problem