Cluster Services fails to start because CASA fails to start

  • Document ID:7007101
  • Creation Date:26-Oct-2010
  • Modified Date:27-Apr-2012
    • Micro Focus Products:
      Cluster Services
      Open Enterprise Server

Environment

Novell Cluster Services
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 3
CASA (Common Authentication Service Adapter)

Situation

Novell Cluster Services fails to start with the message ERROR: CASA Daemon is not running
rcmicasad statusshows miCASA daemon not running or dead
CASAcli -lshows Could not open miCASA store or Found 0 credential sets

Resolution

Fixed in CASA versions after April 2011.

Workaround
  • Start CASA
    • rcmicasad restart
  • Check CASA is running correctly
    • CASAcli -l
      • Sample output
      •  Name: NovellClusterServices.Novell
      •   Key: Password (********)
      •   Key: DN_LDAP (********)
  • Restart Cluster Services
    • rcnovell-ncs restart
The CASA credentials can be added back with the following commands to get the problematic server to join the cluster again:

KEYVALUE=cn=admin,o=novell CASAcli -s -n NovellClusterServices.Novell -k DN_LDAP
KEYVALUE=<admin password> CASAcli -s -n NovellClusterServices.Novell -k Password