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Process Portmap Service Health

Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.Process.Portmap.Monitor (UnitMonitor)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Process Portmap Monitor

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The portmap daemon is not running. Check the Diagnostic and Recovery results to see if further action is required.

The portmap daemon converts RPC program numbers into Internet port numbers.

Causes

A failure indicates that the portmap service on the system is down

Resolutions

Check the service by running ps -ef | grep portmap or by viewing the diagnostic in the Operations Manager Console. Start it by running the command "service portmap start" or by clicking the recovery link in the Operations Manager Console.

For root cause analysis, first check the system log file (/var/log/messages), and view any related entries at the time of failure.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Linux.RHEL.4.OperatingSystem
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.AvailabilityState
CategoryAvailabilityHealth
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityNormal
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
Monitor TypeMicrosoft.Unix.WSMan.Process.Status.MonitorType
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
RPC Bind daemon (portmap) is not running
The RPC Bind daemon (portmap) on server {0} is not running.
RunAsDefault

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.Process.Portmap.Monitor" Accessibility="Public" Target="Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.OperatingSystem" TypeID="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.WSMan.Process.Status.MonitorType" Enabled="true" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.AvailabilityState">

  <Category>AvailabilityHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.Process.Portmap.AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>Error</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState HealthState="Success" MonitorTypeStateID="Running" ID="Running"/>

    <OperationalState HealthState="Error" MonitorTypeStateID="NotRunning" ID="NotRunning"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <TargetSystem>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/NetworkName$</TargetSystem>

    <ProcessName>portmap</ProcessName>

    <Interval>300</Interval>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>