topic Re: HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1 in Operating System - Linux

HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

Artem Efimov — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 06:13:20 GMT

Installation failed on hpsmh-2.0.0-103.vmware.i386.rpm

Log file says
Connected to 127.0.0.1:2301....
...
sent /proxy/reconnect...counter=5, status=0
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address _._._._:2381
no listening sockets available, shutting down

What could it be?

Re: HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

Ross Minkov — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 07:56:07 GMT

Try this:

netstat -vatp | egrep '2301|2381'

this will show you what program is listening on these ports.

-Ross

Re: HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

Gopi Sekar — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:01:09 GMT

looks like the hpsmh service or some other service is already running on that system (may be vmware maintenance service).

try this: check the output of 'netstat -aptn' and look whether there is any service listening on port 2381 (generally it looks like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2381) if it is listed then it will also give the program which is holding that port.

let us know the result then we will try to solve the problem.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

Re: HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

Artem Efimov — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 01:20:00 GMT

[root@... /]# netstat -vatp | egrep '2301|2381'
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdom:2381 *:* LISTEN 22600/hpsmhd
tcp 0 0 ...:2381 *:* LISTEN 22600/hpsmhd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdom:2301 *:* LISTEN 22600/hpsmhd
tcp 0 0 ...:2301 *:* LISTEN 22600/hpsmhd

HPSMHD is already in memory, but i can't find it on disk. How should I unload this module? I don't want to crash the system.

Re: HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

Gopi Sekar — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 01:47:39 GMT

you can stop the service by calling '/etc/init.d/hpshmd stop'

if this does not kill and the process id 22600 still exists(check ps -ax|grep hpsmhd) then the kill the individual process id's by 'kill -TERM pid'

Hope this helps,
Gopi

Re: HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

Artem Efimov — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:04:29 GMT

Thanks a lot.

Re: HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

Artem Efimov — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 02:07:45 GMT

After I killed process hpsmpd, installation was done without errors.

Thanks again.