Smarts ESM : While executing Telnet server tool, the script returns "ICS-E-ACTION_CMD_STATUS-Action 'ics-telnet.sh' failed with status '2'. What is the use of sm_xcmd ?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:




Considering The SAM server is on Centos 6.6 or similar version, after executing the command dos2unix on the script.

Executing the tool from a console on Windows 7, the Xming is installed and launched successfully. But the script returns the error "ICS-E-ACTION_CMD_STATUS-Action 'ics-telnet.sh' failed with status '2'." While executing from Telnet server tool.

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

Usually there would be more to this error, for example:
 
ICS-E-XAPP_ERROR-Error: DISPLAY variable is set to 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0'.
 
As per the error snippet shared :
 
ICS-E-ACTION_CMD_STATUS-Action 'ics-telnet.sh' failed with status '2'.
 
As long as the display is set correctly and the x-win is working ,please try changing the following line in action/server/ics-telnet.sh :
 
${SM_HOME}/bin/sm_xcmd -x ${XTERM_DIRECTORY}xterm -e ${TELNET_DIRECTORY}telnet ${j}
 
to
 
${SM_HOME}/bin/sm_xcmd ${XTERM_DIRECTORY}xterm -e ${TELNET_DIRECTORY}telnet ${j}


Usage:  sm_xcmd [-x] <command> : when the -x flag is present, the command will be treated as a X application command