On Jul 31, 2008, at 17:17 , Steve Stackwick wrote:

Well, it's working now after we poked a hole in the firewall, my real
question is: where is 1757 coming from?

random, the default was unavailable (must have been, otherwise that
would have been selected).

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Remco Post <r.post AT plcs DOT nl> wrote:

Quoting Steve Stackwick <sstackwick AT JASI DOT COM>:

Greetings ADSM-L! I've a port problem today. When we're trying to
run
a command schedule in prompted mode, we see this in the activity
log:

2008-07-26 23:01                        ANR8213W
       Session open with vmhyper1-toc timed out. (SESSION: 984)
2008-07-26 23:01                        ANR2716E
       Schedule prompter was not able to contact client
VMHYPER1_TOC_VCB using type 1 (vmhyper1-toc 1757). (SESSION: 984)

As you can see, the port in use is 1757. And, indeed, when we open
that port through the client's firewall, the schedule runs just
fine.
My question is: where the #%$! is that port coming from?

you run schedmode prompted, right?

So either:

1- switch to schedmode polling
2- set a tcp client port

'cause probably, the defaul tcp client port 1501 was in use (maybe
a hung
client?) and the client selected some other port.

Here is the dsm.sys:

Servername      vmhyper1-toc-vcb
COMMmethod      tcpip
tcpserveraddr   xxxxxxx
tcpport         1500
nodename        vmhyper1_toc_vcb
passwordaccess  generate
largecom        yes
txnbytelimit    25600
tcpnodelay      yes
tcpbuffsize     32
tcpwin          64
schedlogn               /home/vmwaresched-vcb.log
schedmode               prompted
errorlogn               /home/vmwareerr-vcb.log
dirmc                   dirmc
schedlogretention       30 d
errorlogretention       30 d

and here is the client node definition on the server:

           Node Name: VMHYPER1_TOC_VCB
                    Platform: Linux86
             Client OS Level: 2.4.21-47
              Client Version: Version 5, release 4, level 0.0
          Policy Domain Name: CG_UNIX
       Last Access Date/Time: 07/28/2008 10:17:58
      Days Since Last Access: <1
      Password Set Date/Time: 05/29/2008 15:14:05
     Days Since Password Set: 60
       Invalid Sign-on Count: 0
                     Locked?: No
                     Contact:
                 Compression: Client
     Archive Delete Allowed?: Yes
      Backup Delete Allowed?: No
      Registration Date/Time: 05/29/2008 15:14:05
   Registering Administrator: admin
Last Communication Method Used: Tcp/Ip
 Bytes Received Last Session: 7,814.35 M
     Bytes Sent Last Session: 3,891
    Duration of Last Session: 138.81
 Pct. Idle Wait Last Session: 0.10
Pct. Comm. Wait Last Session: 7.82
Pct. Media Wait Last Session: 0.00
                   Optionset:
                         URL: http://myclient.mycompany.com:1581
                   Node Type: Client
  Password Expiration Period:
           Keep Mount Point?: No
Maximum Mount Points Allowed: 1
      Auto Filespace Rename : No
           Validate Protocol: No
                 TCP/IP Name: vmhyper1-toc
              TCP/IP Address: <valid redacted IP address>
          Globally Unique ID:
11.58.f2.80.10.9d.11.dd.86.1e.00.50.56.4f.e5.e5
       Transaction Group Max: 0
             Data Write Path: ANY
              Data Read Path: ANY
          Session Initiation: ClientOrServer
          High-level Address:
           Low-level Address:
      Collocation Group Name:
            Proxynode Target:
             Proxynode Agent:
                 Node Groups:

And the contents of the command executed by the schedule,
tsmbckup.sc:

/jobs/vmbckup.sc </dev/null

and the contents of  vmbckukp.sc:

vcbMounter -h vmhyper1-toc -a ipaddr:ctrxweb -r
/vmfs/volumes/vmhyper1-toc:Local/vcb/ctrxwebbckup
wait
vcbMounter -h vmhyper1-toc -a ipaddr:ctrxlicsvr -r
/vmfs/volumes/vmhyper1-toc:Local/vcb/ctrxlicsvrbckup
wait
dsmc sel /vmfs/volumes/vmhyper1-toc:Local/vcb/ -subdir=yes
-ser=vmhyper1-toc-vcb
wait
rm -rf /vmfs/volumes/vmhyper1-toc:Local/vcb/*

The server is 5.5, running on AIX 5.3

What's up with port 1757? Am I missing something blazingly obvious?

--
Stephen Stackwick
Jacob & Sundstrom, Inc.
401 East Pratt St., Suite 2214
Baltimore, MD 21202-3003
(410) 539-1135 * (866) 539-1135
sstackwick AT jasi DOT com

--

Met vriendelijke groeten,

Remco Post, PLCS

--
Stephen Stackwick
Jacob & Sundstrom, Inc.
401 East Pratt St., Suite 2214
Baltimore, MD 21202-3003
(410) 539-1135 * (866) 539-1135
sstackwick AT jasi DOT com

--
Met vriendelijke groeten,

Remco Post
remco AT pipsworld DOT nl