ibm-cem-brokers pod fails to start

When deploying the offering in your production environment, the ibm-cem-brokers pod does not fully start with one of the following log error messages:

• Failed to fetch existing topics
• Failed to initialize topics

To check the log errors, first run the following command:

oc get pods | grep broker

The pod name is returned, as in the following example:

m242-ibm-cem-brokers-74dfd57645-2knvb 1/1 Running 0 5d17h

Check the log errors with the pod name, as in the following example:

oc logs po/m242-ibm-cem-brokers-74dfd57645-2knvb

If any of the topic errors are displayed, run the following command to restart the DNS:

oc delete pods --all -n openshift-dns