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RE: TCP Port question

I never thought about a comm trace. I'll see if I can get them to do that.
I'm not sure what level of expertise they have there and I can't get on
their box (yes, I'm trouble shooting in the dark).

Thanks everyone for the great ideas. That's why I like you guys. :)

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Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 2:10 PM
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Subject: Re: TCP Port question

Good idea. See STRCMNTRC.


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From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/12/2015 02:06 PM
Subject: Re: TCP Port question
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



I'd suggest a comm trace...

You can do it from the IBM i side, or the PC side, or both to understand
if
the requests are getting there and what the response it.

Charles

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:49 PM, John R. Smith, Jr. <
smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They know what the server and it is actively talking to other clients on
other ports. It seems to be 100% iSeries or port 77 unless something
burped
on the server and it won't talk on port 77 but will talk on the rest.
I'll
see if they can get a clean window to reboot it but I will probably have
the
new logging in place before a reboot happens.

-----Original Message-----
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Jim
Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 1:34 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: TCP Port question

Ohhh...

That's a horse of a different color; the server on the remote side is
not
responding so therefore it needs to be reset. Unfortunately unless it's
documented somewhere about what server it is you might have some
interesting
moments trying to find it.

Can you ping the IP address? If so add the -a parm to the ping so it
will
report its name. That might help narrow it down.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
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John
R. Smith, Jr.
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:07 PM
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Subject: RE: TCP Port question

I'm afraid my wording confused things. The "server" is a unix or
Windows
server (not sure of their config) that is listening/waiting for the
iSeries
to connection on port 77. When they execute the program on the iSeries
for
the client to start talking on port 77, it returns an error saying that
it
can't connect to the server on port 77. The client program on the
iSeries
is a manual call and not part of the IPL startup.

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Jim
Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 12:54 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: TCP Port question

Then you are looking for a program that is not running and either A)
failed
in the startup program, or B) was not there to start with.

I'd look at the job log for the startup program and the history log.
Look
at the jobs ending as the IPL started and you might catch the job that
actually was listening on that port.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
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John
R. Smith, Jr.
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:42 AM
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Subject: RE: TCP Port question

The port number is 77. Both the client and the server programs are
completely custom.

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Jim
Oberholtzer
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 11:37 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: TCP Port question

Gary's correct, check to be sure the host servers started, but I suspect
there is a different server you need started.

What port are you looking for? Is it a well-known port or a custom
port?

If it's a custom port you might start by looking to see if all of the
WAS,
PHP and/or Apache instances started properly. Check the /www directory
for
any apache instances that listen on a custom port.

Should the IWS start?

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
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Gary
Thompson
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 10:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: TCP Port question

Are TCP services running on the re-started iSeries ?

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John
R. Smith, Jr.
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 9:30 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: TCP Port question

I have a client that is running a client server system where the iSeries
is
a client. When they try to start the job on the iSeries, they are
getting
a
failure trying to access the specified port. It is my understanding
that
the package previously worked and when they did an IPL, it stopped
working.
There were supposedly no other configuration changes to the iSeries or
the
network. That sounds really strange to me. Unfortunately, at this time
I
only have a message that the connection failed. I don't know if it was
the
open or the bind or something else that it didn't like. We are adding
some
additional logging to the program to try to be a better message than
"connection failed".



In the meantime, I had them do a NETSTAT option 3 and F14 to see the
ports
and they said the port in question does not show anything using it. Is
there anything else that anyone can suggest to look at that might show
me
what is causing the failure?





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