Mission control fails on 'Activate'.

While testing replication from a main instance to a DR (disaster recovery) instance, we encounter the following message in the log:

Failed to push security xml to instance Artifactory Production DR

after pressing the Activate in the Actions menu.

More complete output:

ACTIVATE Results:
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Push replications from instance Artifactory Production DR to instance Artifactory Production were disabled
Global replication on instance Artifactory Production was set to FALSE
Security Descriptor of the instance Artifactory Production cached in MC
Push replications from instance Artifactory Production to instance Artifactory Production DR were disabled
ACTIVATE Errors:
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Failed to push security xml to instance Artifactory Production DR
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