Environment

eDirectory 9.2.x for Linux

Situation

The eDirectory service starts, and the instance shows as "Active," but the NCP port (524) is not listening.

After increasing the eDirectory security to debug level (LogDbg), the ndsd.log file showed the error: “DSAgentOpenLocal failed, illegal transaction operation (-772).” This operation is crucial for various directory service tasks, such as reading or writing directory data, synchronization, and managing directory objects.

668477184: THRD: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:34 2024] DEBUG:  ---------- Begin OpenAgentTask ----------
668477184: INIT: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:34 2024] DEBUG: Begin DSAgentOpenLocal...
668477184: CONN: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:34 2024] DEBUG: Bad address cache is open.
668477184: RECM: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:38 2024] DEBUG: SMI Error Code = failed, 49201 (0xc031)
Nov 04 10:05:38  The local agent could not be opened - failed, illegal transaction operation (-772)
668477184: INIT: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:38 2024] DEBUG: DSAgentOpenLocal failed, illegal transaction operation (-772).
668477184: MISC: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:38 2024] DEBUG: Begin DSAgentCloseLocal...
668477184: MISC: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:38 2024] DEBUG: Finish DSAgentCloseLocal.
668477184: INIT: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:38 2024] DEBUG: Opened local agent -- failed, illegal transaction operation (-772)
668477184: THRD: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:38 2024] DEBUG:  ---------- End OpenAgentTask ----------
Nov 04 10:05:39  NICIext_Health.log in directory: /var/opt/novell/eDirectory/log/
Nov 04 10:05:39  GAMS Init called
Nov 04 10:05:39  Graded Authentication Management Service Version 9.2.8.0000 started
Nov 04 10:05:39  Information: SNMP Trap Server for NetIQ eDirectory 9.2.8 v40209.00 started.
 
590505728: VCLN: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:39 2024] DEBUG: request DS Ping by context 0e5f0001 ,cFlags=00010584 , scflags=00000000 failed, system failure (-632)
Nov 04 10:05:39  NDS iMonitor for NetIQ eDirectory 9.2.8 v40209.00 started successfully.
685319936: VCLN: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:40 2024] DEBUG: request DS Ping by context 0e620001 ,cFlags=00010584 , scflags=00000000 failed, system failure (-632)
685319936: VCLN: [Mon Nov  4 10:05:40 2024] DEBUG: request DS Ping by context 0e630001 ,cFlags=00010584 , scflags=00000000 failed, system failure (-632)
Nov 04 10:05:40  LDAP Agent for NetIQ eDirectory 9.2.9 (402010.00) stopped

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