server refused to allocate pty - CIM server

Hi,

On two of our servers (AIX 5.3 both at different TL's) we get a 'server
refused to allocate pty' error when we try and logon.

When we first build them they are fine and I think its only once we put
on CIM Server (which comes on the Expansion Pack and is something to do
with monitoring DB2 I think) that these problems seem to occur.
However this is just my best guess and it may not be related. It seems
quite a coincidence otherwise though.

Ive looked through google and it says about allocating extra pty's or
remvoing and redefing the pty's etc but Im not sure if the posts I have
found are quite correct for AIX 5.3.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can check.

Im using ssh to logon

Ive also tried to reanble telnet in inetd (then refresh -s inetd) but a
netstat -a doesnt even show it listening. This seems to also be
related to the whole problem.

Regards,
Scott

[email]scott_doyland@johnlewis.co.uk[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> On two of our servers (AIX 5.3 both at different TL's) we get a 'server
> refused to allocate pty' error when we try and logon.
>
> When we first build them they are fine and I think its only once we put
> on CIM Server (which comes on the Expansion Pack and is something to do
> with monitoring DB2 I think) that these problems seem to occur.
> However this is just my best guess and it may not be related. It seems
> quite a coincidence otherwise though.
>
> Ive looked through google and it says about allocating extra pty's or
> remvoing and redefing the pty's etc but Im not sure if the posts I have
> found are quite correct for AIX 5.3.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can check.
>
> Im using ssh to logon
>
> Ive also tried to reanble telnet in inetd (then refresh -s inetd) but a
> netstat -a doesnt even show it listening. This seems to also be
> related to the whole problem.
>
> Regards,
> Scott[/color]

[email]scott_doyland@johnlewis.co.uk[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> On two of our servers (AIX 5.3 both at different TL's) we get a 'server
> refused to allocate pty' error when we try and logon.
>
> When we first build them they are fine and I think its only once we put
> on CIM Server (which comes on the Expansion Pack and is something to do
> with monitoring DB2 I think) that these problems seem to occur.
> However this is just my best guess and it may not be related. It seems
> quite a coincidence otherwise though.
>
> Ive looked through google and it says about allocating extra pty's or
> remvoing and redefing the pty's etc but Im not sure if the posts I have
> found are quite correct for AIX 5.3.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can check.
>
> Im using ssh to logon
>
> Ive also tried to reanble telnet in inetd (then refresh -s inetd) but a
> netstat -a doesnt even show it listening. This seems to also be
> related to the whole problem.
>
> Regards,
> Scott[/color]

Ive managed to track down the problem myself, a certain environment
variable must be set when the CIM Server (cimserver) is installed, so
in /etc/environment I set
XPG_SUS_ENV=ON
This caused my problem. Remvoing this line sorted it out.
So I just need to set this variable before I run cimserver rather then
put it in /etc/environement I expect.

Regards,
Scott