HP SIM Agent 7.20 installation failed on ESX 2.5.1

[Artem Efimov]

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?

[Ross Minkov · Accepted solution]

Try this:

netstat -vatp | egrep '2301|2381'

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

-Ross

[Gopi Sekar]

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

[Artem Efimov]

[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.

[Gopi Sekar]

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

[Artem Efimov]

Thanks a lot.

[Artem Efimov]

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

Thanks again.