ONTAP SVM Disaster Recovery relationship initialization fail with error: “Schedule not found”

Applies to

• Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3
• ONTAP 9
• SVM-DR 

Issue

When initializing the SVM-DR relationship, it fails with the following error message(s), which can be found in event log show and snapmirror show:

EMS Logs:
DRCGFM:HA Group Notification from a3cnas-02 (DR CONFIG REPLICATION FAILED) ERROR
Configuration replication for policy "policy_name" in Vserver "vserver_name" has failed because the schedule mentioned in the policy is not available.
 

SnapMirror Logs:
“Failed to apply the source Vserver configuration. Reason: Unrecoverable error during configuration replication, requires manual intervention. Error: Schedule custom_schedule not found.
Execute "snapmirror show -destination-vserver vserverdr -fields last-transfer-error,unhealthy-reason -expand" to check if the constituent volumes have encountered errors.”