Smarts SAM/IP: Smarts domains wont start with the following message: Error attaching to broker: localhost:426!

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:




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

Error attaching to broker: localhost:426!

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

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

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

10.x.x.x     admins machine
10.x.x.x     vmsmtsrhel5u4

Commenting out one of them solved the issue:

#10.x.x.x     admins machine
10.x.x.x     vmsmtsrhel5u4