Installing and Setting Up Resource Manager Essentials 3.3 on Windows NT and Windows 2000
Troubleshooting the Installation

Table Of Contents

Troubleshooting the Installation

If the Installer Window Does Not Appear

Logging In After Upgrading

Understanding Installation Messages

Failure to Delete a Package During Uninstallation

Accessing the CiscoWorks2000 Server

Verify the Server Is Running

Proxy Server Problems

Daemon Manager Not Running

Viewing Process Status

Browser Problems

Improving Server Performance


Troubleshooting the Installation


This appendix provides troubleshooting information for Essentials installation and setup, and contains these sections:

If the Installer Window Does Not Appear

Logging In After Upgrading

Understanding Installation Messages

Failure to Delete a Package During Uninstallation

Accessing the CiscoWorks2000 Server

Viewing Process Status

Browser Problems

Improving Server Performance

If the Installer Window Does Not Appear

If the Installer window does not appear after you insert the CD-ROM, you can run the installation program from the Run dialog box.


Step 1 Select Start > Run. The Run dialog box appears.

Step 2 In the Open field, enter:

drive:\setup.exe

where drive is the CD-ROM drive letter.

Logging In After Upgrading

If the Login Manager dialog box on the CiscoWorks2000 desktop does not appear correctly when you try to log in for the first time after upgrading, clear your browser cache as follows, then reenter the server URL in your browser.

Wait a few seconds after the server starts before logging in. If you have trouble logging in, click the Reload button on your browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer:


Step 1 Select Tools > Internet Options. The Internet Options dialog box appears.

Step 2 Select the General tab.

Step 3 Click Delete Files, then click OK in the Delete Files dialog box.


Netscape Navigator:


Step 1 Select Edit > Preferences. The Preferences dialog box appears.

Step 2 Select Advanced > Cache.

Step 3 Click Clear Memory Cache, then click OK in the Memory Cache dialog box.

Step 4 Click Clear Disk Cache, then click OK in the Disk Cache dialog box.


Understanding Installation Messages

The messages that might appear during installation are:

Information messages, that give you important details

Warning messages, that tell you that something might be wrong with a particular process, but the process will complete

Error messages, that tell you that a particular process could not complete

All messages that appear during Essentials installation are logged in the C:\cw2000_in002.log file.

Table A-1 shows messages that might occur during installation and describes the reasons.

Table A-1 Installation Messages 

Message
Reason for Message
User Action

CiscoWorks 2000 installation cannot proceed because you are not logged in as an administrator.

You are not logged in to Windows NT with administrator privileges.

Log in with local administrator privileges and try installing again.

Decompression failed on file. The error was for error code per CompressGet

If Essentials was downloaded, a transmission error occurred, or the installation media is damaged.

Retry the download. If you still have errors, contact your technical support representative.

General file transmission error. Please check your target location and try again. Error number: error code

If Essentials was downloaded, a transmission error might have occurred.

Retry the download. If you still have errors, contact your technical support representative.

Unable to write infoFile or Unable to create infoFile

A file-write operation failed.

Run the file system checking utility, then repeat the installation.

Cannot stop service servicename

The installation (or uninstallation) tried to stop the service servicename unsuccessfully.

Select Control Panel > Services and try to stop service servicename manually, then proceed with installing or uninstalling.

UseDLL failed for dll

dll is supposed to be available at any time for any process, but NT failed to load it.

Check permissions on Windows NT System 32. If the dll is secure.dll or r_inst.dll, check the product installation medium for errors.

or

Reinstall Windows NT.

function failed: DLL function not found

dll is supposed to be available at any time for any process, but NT failed to load it.

Check permissions on Windows NT System 32. If dll is secure.dll or r_inst.dll, check the product installation medium for errors.

or

Reinstall Windows NT.

OpenFile failed: pathname

A file open operation failed.

Run the file system checking utility, then repeat the installation.

ProtectFile failed: file: error. WWW admin security may be incomplete

Setting file permissions failed because the user might not be allowed to change them.

Log in as administrator.

Note If you are installing on a FAT file system, Essentials cannot provide file security.

 

Launch of isql script failed

Existing database file is broken, or the previous version of Essentials is destroyed. (You may see this message during installation.)

Contact your support representative.

The installer requires temporary workspace. You have less than 8 MB of free space on drive_on_which_temporary_directory is located: Please free up some space and try again.

Insufficient drive space for temporary installation files.

Make more drive space available, then rerun installation.

The installer has verified the following on your system: Insufficient disk space (footprint and runtime).

Insufficient disk space available to install the product.

Create additional free space on the drive or install both CD One and Essentials on a different drive.

The installer has verified the following on your system: Insufficient memory (RAM).

Insufficient RAM to meet Essentials requirements.

Complete the installation, then reconfigure the system.

The installer has verified the following: Insufficient swap space (or paging file).

Insufficient swap space to meet Essentials recommendations.

Complete the installation, then increase paging file size.

The installer has verified the following: Insufficient CPU.

Insufficient CPU to meet Essentials recommendations.

Install both CD One and Essentials on a different system.

You have enough space to install Essentials. However, if you want to install other applications after installing Essentials, please check the system requirements for those products.

Possibly insufficient disk space available to install the other products.

If you plan to install other products that depend on Essentials, you might need to create additional free space on the drive or install CD One, Essentials, and other products on a different drive.

The installer has determined that the destination drive has an NTFS or FAT file system. You have size and units of space. The product requires size and units on this drive.

Insufficient disk space available to install the product.

Create additional free space on the drive or install both CD One and Essentials on a different drive.

Failed to set file permissions.

Installation program is unable to set file permissions. The likely causes are:

Account you used to log in to the system has insufficient permissions.

Drive on which you are installing the product has a FAT file system.

Fix problem, then rerun installation program.

<...> is already running! Wait for it to finish and press the OK button below

An installation subtask is still running.

Wait for installation subtask to complete running, then click OK to proceed.

Unable to create/open log file.

Installation program was unable to create or open installation log file cw2000_inxxx.log, where xxx is a sequential number starting from 001 (in the root directory of the system drive).

Determine why file could not be created or opened, fix problem, then rerun installation. You may not have enough disk space or the file may be write protected.

Error creating user casuser <... > See the troubleshooting section in Using Resource Manager Essentials.

Installation program could not create the user casuser account.

Fix problem, then rerun the installation.

Cannot find script to upgrade database

Problem with database upgrade.

Contact your technical support representative.

Database upgrade failed

Problem with database upgrade.

Contact your technical support representative.

Database upgrade result unknown

Problem with database upgrade.

Contact your technical support representative.


Failure to Delete a Package During Uninstallation

If you try to remove Essentials but the uninstallation program fails to delete a package, try running the uninstall program again. Several circumstances can allow a package to remain. Usually running the uninstallation program again removes the package.

Accessing the CiscoWorks2000 Server

The server uses port 1741. Make sure you enter the correct URL when accessing the server:

http://server_name:1741

where server_name is the name of the server.

Verify the Server Is Running

To make sure your server is running, enter the following command at a DOS prompt:

ping server_name

Proxy Server Problems

If you get a message that the server is "alive" and get a proxy error when you try to connect to the server, make sure the proxy is set up correctly.

You will get proxy errors if both these conditions are true:

Your server is configured to use a proxy server outside the firewall.

You configured the proxy to ignore requests to a certain machine, set of machines, or domain.

You should specify a proxy server in Netscape Navigator under Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Proxies and in Internet Explorer under Tools > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings.

Your proxy is set up incorrectly if:

You receive an error message that you are using a proxy outside the firewall.

The proxy server recognizes www-int as an internal server, so it does not proxy requests to that server.

You set up a new internal server, www-nms, but when you make a request to the proxy server, it does not recognize www-nms as an internal server and proxies the request.

The proxy server outside the firewall tries to request data from a server inside the firewall, and the request is blocked.

You get a "Connection Refused" error from the proxy server.

Daemon Manager Not Running

CiscoWorks2000 relies on the Daemon Manager to control its processes. If the Daemon Manager is not running, you cannot access the server. If you interrupt an installation or uninstallation, the Daemon Manager might not have restarted.


Note Wait a few seconds after the server starts before logging in. If you have trouble logging in, click the Reload button on your browser.


To start or stop the Daemon Manager from the GUI:


Step 1 From the Windows Start menu, select Start > Settings > Control Panels.

Step 2 Double-click Services.

Step 3 Select CW2000 Daemon Manager from the dialog box.

Step 4 Click Start to start the server.

Step 5 Click Stop to stop the server.


To start (or stop) the Daemon Manager from the command-line interface:


Step 1 Log in as administrator.

Step 2 Open a command prompt window or shell window.

Step 3 Stop the server by entering:

# net stop crmdmgtd

Step 4 Start the server by entering:

# net start crmdmgtd

Viewing Process Status

To check for failures of back-end server processes select Server Configuration >
Administration > Process Management > Process Status
. Only users with administrator privileges can start and stop processes. For details, refer to Getting Started with the CiscoWorks2000 Server.

Browser Problems

If the desktop buttons do not work, Java and JavaScript are not enabled. Make sure you enable Java and JavaScript.

Make sure the browser cache is not set to zero.

Do not resize the browser window while the desktop main page is loading. This can cause a Java error.

For information about setting up browsers, refer to Installing and Setting Up CD One on Windows 2000 and Windows NT.

Improving Server Performance

To improve server performance for Essentials:

Reduce the number of managed devices polled by Availability.

Increase the interval used by Availability to poll managed devices.

Reduce the number of syslog messages saved to the CiscoWorks2000 database.

Increase the interval used by Configuration Management to collect information for managed devices.