FAILURE: 709 vasd cannot handle IPC requests (4283877)

FAILURE: 709 Missing < /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/.vasd_ipc_sock >, vasd cannot handle IPC requests.
 

This error is caused by vasd being unable to write to the  /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/.vasd_ipc_sock file.  This can be caused by:

a) directory permissions being too strict on any of the directories holding this file, due to server hardening or other configuration change:

b) max open file limit exceeded, so that the operating system (O/S) can not open a new file.

c) old vasd processess that were not shut down properly could be holding open old socket files

RESOLUTION 1:

Check the following directory permissions:

/  should be    root root 755
/var  should be    root root 755
/var/opt  should be    root root 755
/var/opt/quest  should be   root root 755
/var/opt/quest/vas  should be    root root 755
/var/opt/quest/vas/vasd  should be   daemon daemon 755

RESOLUTION 2:

Check the log for messages that say "Too many open files" or  "file-max limit xxxxx reached"  where xxxxx is the maximum allowed open files. 

Either increase the number of allowed open files (method is O/S dependant), or find what is opening too many files and stop or fix it. Pleaser refer to the operating system vendor for information on increasing the limits.

RESOLUTION 3:

Shut down the vasd service and run "ps -ef | grep vasd". If any services are still running manually kill them and then restart the vasd service.