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sridevi yv (10632) | asked Aug 05 '10, 3:00 a.m.
hi,
i installed buildforge agents recently on hp and aix machines.. i dint encounter any prob during installation.i mean the installation was successful..
but when i create a server in buildforge and test connection for the same, its failing..
authentication,path all are absolutely correct
i feel its cos the agent is not started on the respective machines.
the command bfagent -s is not working for some reason..
can anyone pls help me solve this issue and tell me how to run agents on unix machines??

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Bryan Miller - Integration Developer (4493531) | answered Oct 06 '10, 11:49 a.m.
hi,
i gave the path and then tried the command..still its saying "not found" i really don know how to resove this issue
pls help me out


It's really hard to tell from the data what might be happening. Is there any way that you could follow the documentation for uninstalling and try the install again just to make sure that all of the files are in their initial condition.

hi,
ya i had tried that for some server and it was such a mess..it hadn helped me in any way.. am sure there's no mistake in the installation..it was all smooth and i had even got prompting msgs as to wat all is happening during installation.. anyways worst case i will try to uninstall and install.. but the machines which i am working on are very important ones in the company and i don wanna mess around with them..

You'll have to run find to locate the agent and then run it with the full path.

If that works, run the correct flavor of netstat for your OS (e.g. netstat -ln -A inet) to see which ports are listening for connections. If 5555 is not bound then check /etc/services, etc.

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vishnu kumar (66157) | answered Dec 27 '10, 5:52 a.m.
Hello Team,
While testing connection to a build forge agent from build forge management console.I am getting following error


Errors

Host: sdwbaix3.in.ibm.com:5555
Agent Version: 7.1.0.0-0-0241
Authentication: root
Platform:
Status: Functional failure
Duration: 2

While using this selector in a job,I got following error on the console:

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1 12/26/10 01:00AM STEP Step using selector 'SDWBAIX3'.
2 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LASTJOBS=0
3 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LAST_UPDATE=1293266830
4 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_NAME=SDWBAIX3
5 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_AGENT_VERSION=7.1.0.0.0.0241
6 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LOADRATIO=0.333333333333333
7 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_JOBS=1
8 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LAST_REFRESH=1293302948
9 12/26/10 01:00AM AUTH Unable to set user account to unknown account (root)
10 12/26/10 01:00AM RESULT 1 (1)
======================================

Checked following things on the server :
- I am able to telnet to the bfagent machine from build forge management console machine.
- Output of the commands

# telnet localhost 5555
Trying...
Connected to loopback.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 HELLO - BuildForge Agent v7.1.0.0-0-0241

# telnet sdwbaix3.in.ibm.com 5555
Trying 9.182.230.94...
Connected to sdwbaix3.in.ibm.com (9.182.230.94).
Escape character is '^]'.
200 HELLO - BuildForge Agent v7.1.0.0-0-0241



- Checked the entries in /etc/pam.conf

bfagent auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
bfagent account required /usr/lib/security/pam_aix

I have done the reinstallation plenty of times.what can be the possible cause for this issue ?

Thanking you
Vishnu Kumar

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Robert haig (1.0k16) | answered Dec 27 '10, 11:22 a.m.
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Hello Team,
While testing connection to a build forge agent from build forge management console.I am getting following error


Errors

Host: sdwbaix3.in.ibm.com:5555
Agent Version: 7.1.0.0-0-0241
Authentication: root
Platform:
Status: Functional failure
Duration: 2

While using this selector in a job,I got following error on the console:

=========================================
1 12/26/10 01:00AM STEP Step using selector 'SDWBAIX3'.
2 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LASTJOBS=0
3 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LAST_UPDATE=1293266830
4 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_NAME=SDWBAIX3
5 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_AGENT_VERSION=7.1.0.0.0.0241
6 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LOADRATIO=0.333333333333333
7 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_JOBS=1
8 12/26/10 01:00AM MANIFEST BF_LAST_REFRESH=1293302948
9 12/26/10 01:00AM AUTH Unable to set user account to unknown account (root)
10 12/26/10 01:00AM RESULT 1 (1)
======================================

Checked following things on the server :
- I am able to telnet to the bfagent machine from build forge management console machine.
- Output of the commands

# telnet localhost 5555
Trying...
Connected to loopback.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 HELLO - BuildForge Agent v7.1.0.0-0-0241

# telnet sdwbaix3.in.ibm.com 5555
Trying 9.182.230.94...
Connected to sdwbaix3.in.ibm.com (9.182.230.94).
Escape character is '^]'.
200 HELLO - BuildForge Agent v7.1.0.0-0-0241



- Checked the entries in /etc/pam.conf

bfagent auth required /usr/lib/security/pam_aix
bfagent account required /usr/lib/security/pam_aix

I have done the reinstallation plenty of times.what can be the possible cause for this issue ?

Thanking you
Vishnu Kumar

I replied in the new thread you started on this problem.

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