Authentication Manager database services do not to start after power outage
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.4
Issue
Cause
Resolution
- Log on to the appliance using an SSH client.
- When prompted, enter the operating system user ID and the operating system account password.
- Change directories to /opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata/
- Run ls to see the files in the directory.
login as: rsaadmin Using keyboard-interactive authentication. Password: <enter Last login: Mon Jul 25 12:31:28 2022 from 192.168.20.100 RSA Authentication Manager Installation Directory: /opt/rsa/am rsaadmin@am84p:~> cd /opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata/ rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata> ls postmaster.pid postmaster.pid
- If postmaster.pid exists, remove it:
rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata> rm postmaster.pid rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata>
- Navigate to cd /opt/rsa/am/pgsql/bin and run the following command:
rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata> cd /opt/rsa/am/pgsql/bin rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/pgsql/bin> ./postgres -D /opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata
- Go to /opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata and make sure that postmaster.pid is not there:
rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/pgsql/bin> cd /opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata/ rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata> ls base pg_hba.conf.bk pg_twophase current_logfiles pg_ident.conf PG_VERSION global pg_logical pg_wal log pg_multixact pg_xact memory_tuned_params_16G.conf pg_notify postgresql.auto.conf memory_tuned_params_4G.conf pg_replslot postgresql-back.conf memory_tuned_params_8G.conf pg_serial postgresql.conf memory_tuned_params.conf pg_snapshots postmaster-backup.opts pg_commit_ts pg_stat postmaster.opts pg_dynshmem pg_stat_tmp server.crt pg_hba-back.conf pg_subtrans server.key pg_hba.conf pg_tblspc
- Finally, restart the Authentication Manager services:
rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata> cd /opt/rsa/am/server rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/server> ./rsaserv stop all Stopping RSA RADIUS Server: * RSA RADIUS Server [SHUTDOWN] Stopping RSA Runtime Server: **** RSA Runtime Server [SHUTDOWN] Stopping RSA Console Server: ** RSA Console Server [SHUTDOWN] Stopping RSA Replication (Primary): ** RSA Replication (Primary) [SHUTDOWN] Stopping RSA Database Server: RSA Database Server [SHUTDOWN] Stopping RSA RADIUS Server Operations Console: ** RSA RADIUS Server Operations Console [SHUTDOWN] Stopping RSA Administration Server with Operations Console: * RSA Administration Server with Operations Console [SHUTDOWN] rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/server> ./rsaserv start all Starting RSA Administration Server with Operations Console: Starting RSA Database Server: *************************** RSA Administration Server with Operations Console [RUNNING] Starting RSA RADIUS Server Operations Console: / RSA Database Server [RUNNING] ********************** RSA RADIUS Server Operations Console [RUNNING] Starting RSA Runtime Server: ************************************* RSA Runtime Server [RUNNING] Starting RSA RADIUS Server: * RSA RADIUS Server [RUNNING] Starting RSA Console Server: * Starting RSA Replication (Primary): ***** RSA Replication (Primary) [RUNNING]************************************** RSA Console Server [RUNNING] rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/server>
- If you then go back to /opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata/, you will see the postmaster.pid is in the directory.
rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/server> cd /opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata/ rsaadmin@am84p:/opt/rsa/am/rsapgdata> ls *.pid postmaster.pid
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