CA PIM / PAMSC : seos startup fails to register

Products

• CA Virtual Privilege Manager
• CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)
• CA Privileged Access Manager - Server Control (PAMSC)

Issue/Introduction

Startup of PIM fails with error in syslog.
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kernel: seosd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
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seosd[xxxxx]: Unable to register daemon SEOS_register [Cannot allocate memory]
seosd[xxxxx]: CA Access Control daemon going down on startup error.
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(AIX)  seosd[xxxxx]:   Unable to register daemon SEOS_register [m]

Environment

CA PIM 12.8 SP1

CA PAMSC 14.0/14.1

Cause

The error shows that seosd cannot allocate memory on startup and failed to start.

Resolution

Stop all PIM processes and unload kernel module, and stop other processes or kernel modules that consume memory, and retry to start PIM after a while.
Reboot server if it cannot resolve the problem.