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Command ‘cloudctl es’ produces ‘FAILED’ message

Symptoms

When running the cloudctl es command, the following error message is displayed:

FAILED
...

Causes

This error occurs when you have not logged in to the IBM Cloud Private cluster and initialized the command line tool.

Resolving the problem

Ensure you log in to the IBM Cloud Private cluster as follows:

cloudctl login -a https://<Cluster Master Host>:<Cluster Master API Port>

After logging in to IBM Cloud Private, initialize the IBM Event Streams CLI as follows:

cloudctl es init

Finally, run the operation again.