AIX

Please!

Most of us are AIX admins. Having telepathic abilities is usually not part of the job description.

You have a problem and you want us to help you solve it. What do *you* know about your system? Has even this vast amount of knowledge helped you? Obviously not, because you are asking us. How are we supposed to solve it on even less information, hm? Think about it.

Lets start over: we know already the error code, which is a symptom of the problem - ok. Lets talk about basics, which are still missing:

a) Your System:

1. Model number, significant hardware additions, if applicable
2. OS version, patchlevel ("instfix -i|grep AIX_ML"), etc.
3. Name and release of the application you are trying to install
4. relevant configuration facts regarding this application
5. environment the system is supposed to operate in (networks, ...)

b) Project History:
1) What did you want to achieve
2) What have you done so far to achieve it and how/why did it fail


Here is an example of that, i have included the questionnaires numbers for reference:

I suggest reading How To Ask Questions The Smart Way as well as our local FAQ- both contain hints on how to better prepare questions for posting here.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

That error code does not look like an AIX error code.

Agreed, this error code comes from ANY application running either on the PC (most likely) or the AIX box.

My best guess without knowing anything is - if you believe your installation was successful on the AIX box, than start the application (and maybe refresh initd) and re-try the connection. For me the error message looks pretty similar to what you get when a listener is not running or an entry in tnsnames.ora is incorrect - does your application have any kind of configuration file on the AIX box where you might need to configure servers that are allowed to access your application? If it's some audit tool, it is probably not desired that everyone can.

Kind regards
zxmaus

Thanks guys for all the comments. The audit software is indeed installed on a PC and told to log in to the server. I've included a screen print of the error.
The issue is that the audit software is not able to connect to the software to be audited on the server. and beign passively refused connection.

the error message normally means, that port 22 (standard ssh) is not open on the aix system
try to start sshd

Code:

startsrc -s sshd

you said you normally log in via telnet, whats the error message when configuring the audit software to use telnet? (plz more then the error code you give us above)

No error using the telnet. the problem only occur when the audit software tries to connect to the server via the PC. I explained to MR Bakunin that my lack of information is only due to the fear of being caught devulgin company information. I appreciate this would limit the help I get. but I was just looking for some leads I can pass on to the IT department or settings I might be able to change to see if it works.

I am very grateful for all the input received.

Regards

Captain

do you log in with root, when starting an interactive telnet session? perhaps root login is not allowed

and have you started sshd? and check /etc/ssh/sshd_config
the the listen port is set to 22