Anyone Seen this?

[Vito Sarducci]

I have a problem with my central management server with regards to SCM? Im getting this error in syslog.log and cannot figure this one out?

SCM ERROR: Received an IO exception while reading the agent properties file.

Please help?

Chris
chrisam@rocketmail.com

[Rita C Workman · Accepted solution]

Found this document...hope it helps:
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SCM ERROR: "the properties file for this node does not exist"
DocId: KBRC00003302
Updated: 8/2/00 9:16:00 AM

PROBLEM
When adding a SCM managed node via the SCM user interface (scmgr) an error occurs:

the properties file for this node does not exist

RESOLUTION

Further troubleshooting showed:

- The file /var/opt/mx/nodes/ was never created on the
CMS.

- The mxagent and mxrmi processes are not being respawned on the
managed node. After adding the managed node entries for these processes
were added to the /etc/inittab file, but these processes will not
remain running even after issuing the command: /sbin/init q.

- Running the /opt/mx/lbin/mxagentsysinfo did not error. The
information in the /etc/opt/mx/agent/node.properties and
/etc/opt/mx/agent/agent.properties files look correct for the system.

- /usr/bin/nslookup using both the hostname and IP address report
correct information.

NOTE: Some of the above steps are listed on page 252 of the Service Control
Manager Techical Reference Manual available at: http://docs.fc.hp.com/scmgr.



When issuing the following command:

FOREGROUND=1 /opt/mx/lbin/mxrmi and
FOREGROUND=1 /opt/mx/lbin/mxagent ( in a seperate window)

The commands stay running!


After much research and troubleshooting, the following options can be utilized
to get around the problem described in this document:

There are two options:
1. remove PHCO_20816 (sh-posix(1):cumulative) from the managed node
This will replace /sbin/sh with the earlier, pre Jan-2000 version.

2. keep using FOREGROUND in the /etc/inittab file.

3. update to the DART50 release. This will be the next release after June,
2000.