MxDomainManager restarts - v4.2

[David Stephens_1]

Scenario:
Installing SIM v4.2 on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition, using remote SQLserver 2000 db. (and oh by the way, this is a VMware ESX virtual server.) Used local admin account to install. Install completed successfully. However, the SIM server process keeps restarting, with the 'Restarting MxDomainManager' error in application event log. When I stop the SIM service, I get several errors of 'mxdomainmgr: received an remote exception while binding to RMI registry.'
I checked the ODBC connections, and the test function seems to work on all 4 of them so I'm thinking the SQL connects are not the issue.
I've found several similar messages in this forum but haven't seen the definitive fix (at least the one that applies to my case...)
Any help would be appreciated!

[Aravindh Rajaram · Accepted solution]

Is the SNMP service installed and running on your Virtual Server? HPSIM tends to keep restarting if it doesnot find SNMP Service. If its not present, install it and then HPSIM should automatically start.

[David Stephens_1]

Bingo! Enabling SNMP resolved the problem. Thanks for the quick reply!