My HARestarter is not working. I am trying to monitor HeartBeat and based on that trying to restart VM if it goes down. I have tried all possible metrics to restart the host (only if the thresholds are matched) but it does not work for me. Can somebody please help me with proper working template that has been used?

There are 2 problems with this: 1. The VM restart happens without VM going down. 2. On restart, it deletes the resources and recreates them. While recreating, it stucks at the Port ID could not be found

The template i am using is:

heat_template_version: 2013-05-23

description: >
  HEAT template for my service

resources:
  wait_handle:
    type: OS::Heat::UpdateWaitConditionHandle

  catalog:
    type: OS::Nova::Server
    properties:
      name: catalog
      image: "centos"
      flavor: "m1.medium"
      key_name: "ucm-dev-keypair"      
      networks:
        - port: { get_resource: catalog_port }
      user_data:
        str_replace:
          template: |
            #!/bin/bash -v
            mkdir -p /etc/cfn
            cat <<EOF > /etc/cfn/cfn-credentials
            AWSAccessKeyId=AWS_KEY
            AWSSecretKey=AWS_SECRET
            EOF
            chmod 000400 /etc/cfn/cfn-credentials
            cat <<EOF > /etc/cfn/cfn-hup.conf
            [main]
            stack=STACK_NAME
            credential-file=/etc/cfn/cfn-credentials 
            region='nova'
            interval=2
            EOF
            chmod 000600 /etc/cfn/cfn-hup.conf
            cat <<EOF > /tmp/cfn-hup-crontab.txt
            * * * * * /opt/aws/bin/cfn-hup -f
            * * * * * /opt/aws/bin/cfn-push-stats --watch HEARTBEATFAILUREALARM --heartbeat
            EOF
            chmod 000600 /etc/cfn/cfn-credentials            
            crontab /tmp/cfn-hup-crontab.txt            
            /opt/aws/bin/cfn-signal -e 0 -i 'catalog' "wc_url"
          params:
            wc_url: { get_resource: wait_handle }
            AWS_KEY: { get_resource: WebServerKeys }
            AWS_SECRET: { get_attr: [ WebServerKeys, SecretAccessKey ] }
            STACK_NAME: { get_param: 'OS::stack_name' }
            HEARTBEATFAILUREALARM: { get_resource: ha_alarm }

  catalog_port:
    type: OS::Neutron::Port
    properties:
      network_id: "1a068b22-fd93-462d-b7b7-15f56d5e7f17"
      fixed_ips:
        - subnet_id: "3d7a55d6-4f05-49eb-86d8-7e4cf1b5d650"

  wait_condition:
    type: AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition
    #depends_on: wait_handle
    properties:
      Count: 1
      Handle: { get_resource: wait_handle }
      Timeout: 3600

  heatproxy:
    type: AWS::IAM::User

  WebServerKeys:
    type: AWS::IAM::AccessKey
    depends_on: heatproxy
    properties:
      UserName: { get_resource: heatproxy }

  ha_alarm:
    type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
    depends_on: wait_condition
    properties:
      AlarmActions: 
      - { get_resource: restart }
      AlarmDescription: Restart the Instance if we miss a heartbeat
      ComparisonOperator: LessThanOrEqualToThreshold
      EvaluationPeriods: '2'
      MetricName: Heartbeat
      Namespace: system/linux
      Period: '60'
      Statistic: Minimum
      Threshold: '0'

  catalog_floating_ip:
    type: OS::Neutron::FloatingIP
    properties:
      floating_network_id: "3dcfc74c-3913-48ca-acae-789a022b7783"
      port_id: { get_resource: catalog_port }

  restart:
    type: OS::Heat::HARestarter
    properties:
      InstanceId: { get_resource: catalog }

outputs:
  catalog_private_ip:
    description: IP address of catalog in private network
    value: { get_attr: [ catalog, first_address ] }
  catalog_public_ip:
    description: Floating IP address of catalog in public network
    value: { get_attr: [ catalog_floating_ip, floating_ip_address ] }