Cannot start Trusted Comm. Agent Error...Anyone seen this error before?

[mricca]

Had a problem last night with a TSM MSE database backup on one of our HPUX boxes. All other backups ran fine. The journals, full all completed. No issues before last night.
In the TSM error log is says this.

00:11:06 ADSMSP: MN Can't start session ANS1504E (RC292) Error starting the Trusted Communication Agent process.

error starting the Trusted Communication Agent process.
Explanation:
An error has occurred starting the Trusted Communication Agent process; specifically, the fork() function has failed.

System action: TSM ends.
User response: Probable system error. If the problem persists, restart the workstation.

Has anyone ever seen this error? Is this a TSM error....or did TSM have a problem starting the incremental backup because there were too many processes running on the OS?

Client is HP-UX 11.i MSE databases, backups run from cron. Nothing is syslog, and dsmerror logs just says what I put above.

TIVsm 5.3.4 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Client
TIVsm.CLIENT 5.3.4.6 TSM Base Client Files
TIVsm.CLIENT_API 5.3.4.6 TSM API Client Files
TIVsm.CLIENT_DOC 5.3.4.6 TSM Documentation Files

 

[baldomero83]

TCA is normally user authentication , please check ur dsm.sys , if you have Password is Generate then you HPUX must manage it. on AIX /etc/security/adsm/TSM.PWD is where the TSM password is . with HPUX , it might be under /etc/ , or check the file exist using find command.
also quickly do this on hpux -- run as root dsmc q fi , or dsmc q ses , this will check your passwd authetication --- if this don't work then certainly this might be where your problem is. this can be fix by using upd admin command on the TSM server..

 

[baldomero83]

if you want more reading about TCA please check this field guide

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/Field_Guides.html

Under Tivoli Storage Manager - heading Security Consideration-
will provide you a pdf discussiong user authentication for TSM is a handy pdf..