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Title
Agent collection fail cannot fork: no swap space -
Description
Agent cannot collect data from monitored host. The following error captured in the agent log
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ECHO ERROR [Quartz[0]-41086] com.quest.remoteos.collectors.AbstractUnixCollector - An unexpected error occurred which may cause undesired behavior. You may want to contact customer support if you see this error again: Non-zero return code of 1 from '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/sbin/prtconf': /usr/sbin/prtconf[456]: cannot fork: no swap space /usr/sbin/prtconf[464]: cannot fork: no swap space...YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ECHO -agent> VERBOSE [Quartz[0]-41345] com.quest.remoteos.UnixAgentImpl - An SSH connection to hostname port 22 was not establishedcom.quest.glue.api.services.RemoteConnectionException: A connection could not be established to hostname:22Caused by: com.quest.glue.api.services.ConnectionRefusedException: The remote machine is visible but has refused the connectionCaused by: java.io.IOException: Premature connection close -
Cause
The "cannot fork: no swap space" message indicates the monitored host could be experiencing low on paging space.
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Resolution
Issue resolved after reconfigure monitored host AIX swap space.
To check AIX swap space, run the command `lsps -a`and check if % used is high. If yes, work with AIX adminstrator re-configure the paging space.
For other UNIX platforms, check your documentation for relevant command such as swapon -s .