Domains wont start with "Error attaching to broker: localhost:426!"

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

When issuing a ./brcontrol from any domain manager the same error message is thrown:

Error attaching to broker: localhost:426!

./brstart --daemon does not create a broker log file and the broker does not start

Environment

SMARTS 10.x / 2.x

Cause

There are 2 entries from the same IP address in the /etc/hosts file which are conflicting:

10.x.x.x     admins machine
10.x.x.x     <hostname>

Resolution

Commenting out one of them will solve the issue.

#10.x.x.x     admins machine
10.x.x.x     <hostname>