Description of problem:

If the agent is started before any of the server in the failover list, it is going to start in offline mode.

During the the resource upgrade phase during inventory manager startup we try to sync with the server to get the latest inventory state. That call fails with an exception which prevents the resource upgrade to disable itself.

This in turn has several side-effects throughout the inventory manager, one of them being that no resource can ever enter a synchronized state. Availability is collected only for the synchronized resources and thus is never collected for any resource until the plugin container is restated while at least one of the servers is online even if the availability check is manually invoked using the 'avail' prompt command.

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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start an agent prior to starting any of the servers
2. Start a server
3. Import a resource
  
Actual results:
The newly imported resource remains in unkown state until the agent (or at least the plugin container) is restarted

Expected results:
The availability collection works normally

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