Starting Solaris Management Console Server

From: Matthew Taylor (matthew.taylor@montgomerycollege.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 29 2008 - 12:01:21 EST


I am feeling rather stumped trying to do what should be simple - run the
Solaris Management Console. The SMC seems can not detect a server running.
My web searches have proved less than fruitful.

A fresh full install of Solaris 10 8/07, patched through a week ago on an
older 4800, updated firmware (5.20.6 build 01).

As soon as I start the smc I get:

"No Solaris Management Console server was available on the specified server.
Please ensure there is a Solaris Management Console server available on the
specified host and that it is running."

So, lets make sure wbem is running:

bash-3.00# /etc/init.d/init.wbem status
Solaris Management Console server not running on port 898.

That could be the problem so we try to start it and check again:

bash-3.00# /etc/init.d/init.wbem start
bash-3.00# /etc/init.d/init.wbem status
Solaris Management Console server not running on port 898.

Ok, so it does not appear to start though it returns no error.

For yucks and grins we check for wbem as a service and find:

bash-3.00# svcs -a | grep wbem
online 11:36:18 svc:/application/management/wbem:default

It does appear to be running?

Really confused now, we check netstat:

bash-3.00# netstat -a |grep 898
localhost.898 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN

Ok, so is it running, or is it not? If not, why might I see what I see? If
it is running, why won't the smc detect a running server?

Any help appreciated.

-- 
Matthew Taylor
Montgomery College
Office of Information Technology
240.567.3100
matthew.taylor@montgomerycollege.edu
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