Environment
Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1
Situation
After applying Microsoft Security Update 921883 to a 32-bit
Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 Server and rebooting, Sentinel Services
and Sentinel Control Center may fail to start. The problem is that
the security patch introduces an issue with programs that allocate
large amounts of contiguous memory (ie 1GB or more), and will cause
them to immediately fail.
This can also affect 64bit systems when the application/services are running in 32bit mode.
This can also affect 64bit systems when the application/services are running in 32bit mode.
Resolution
1. Microsoft has released a hotfix for this issue and is found
in KB article 924054 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924054).
Applying this hotfix and rebooting the server will fix it.
2. The other option is to allocate less memory (less than 1GB)
for the programs affected. This may cause instability if those
applications require the amount of memory previously allocated to
them.