Solaris WBEM Services Are Unavailable When Using smpatch in Remote Mode

Description:

When running smpatch in remote mode or trying to restart the Solaris WBEM services, the following error messages appear:

# smpatch analyze -u root Authenticating as user: root Type /? for help, pressing <enter> accepts the default denoted by [ ] Please enter a string value for: password :: root-password There is no Solaris Management Console Server running on pserver2. # /etc/init.d/init.wbem status Solaris Management Console server not running on port 898. # /etc/init.d/init.wbem start # /etc/init.d/init.wbem status Solaris Management Console server not running on port 898.

Workaround:

Manually stop the Solaris WBEM services before restarting them.

# /etc/init.d/init.wbem stop # /etc/init.d/init.wbem start # /etc/init.d/init.wbem status Solaris Management Console server version 2.1.0 running on port 898.