Dell Openmanage IT Assistant - Problem W2KSP3

I experienced that exact same error message after installing Windows 2000 SP3 today on my desktop computer, which was running IT Assistant v6.2 SP2. I downloaded and installed IT Assistant v6.3, but that error message still pops-up every time I boot the computer.

If I launch IT Assistant, it fails with this message when trying to connect to the OpenManage server: "Unable to connect to OpenManage server 'my-computer-name' on port 2607. The connection parameters may be invalid or the server may be down. Try restarting the application or contact a system administrator if the problem persists."

When I checked Windows 2000 services, these 2 services are not running though set to Automatic startup:
IT Assistant Connection Service
IT Assistant Network Monitoring Service
If I try to start either service, I get the error message reported before. The error message title bar reads "dcnetmon.exe - Entry Point Not Found", and the error message text reads "The procedure entry point SnmpUtilOctetsFree could not be located in the dynamic link library snmpapi.dll."

Message Edited on 08/02/02 12:14PM by Mike_Harris

I also updated my server to SP3. I mad sure the service pack amde a backup of the files it replaced. Upon reboot I received the same error as you. I checked the file snmpapi.dll it was now version 4.x . I went into the backup folder and checked the version of snmpapi.dll it was a 5.x version. So I copied the 5.x over the 4.x and started the ITA services. ITA now works fine.

-cjtompsett

That's not what I'm seeing. My backed-up SNMPAPI.DLL is v5.0.2134.1 and dated 12/7/1999, so it's the original version that shipped with Windows 2000. SP3 replaced it with v5.0.2195.4874 dated 7/22/2002.

It's not a good idea to manually roll-back a single file installed by a Service Pack. That DLL is related to other files that were also updated by SP3, such as SNMP.EXE, SNMPSNAP.DLL, and SNMPTRAP.EXE (which are also dated 7/22/2002). You can make a system unstable by installing unmatched versions of related files.

Well, if it's not a good idea to rollback a dll that was changed by a service pack, and installing this service pack was what caused the error in IT Assistant, what is the fix?
Mike_Harris wrote:
- That's not what I'm seeing. My backed-up
- SNMPAPI.DLL is v5.0.2134.1 and dated 12/7/1999, so
- it's the original version that shipped with Windows
- 2000. SP3 replaced it with v5.0.2195.4874 dated
- 7/22/2002.
-
- It's not a good idea to manually roll-back a single
- file installed by a Service Pack. That DLL is
- related to other files that were also updated by
- SP3, such as SNMP.EXE, SNMPSNAP.DLL, and
- SNMPTRAP.EXE (which are also dated 7/22/2002). You
- can make a system unstable by installing unmatched
- versions of related files.
-
-

For a temporary fix, I did revert back to Service Pack 2 by uninstalling Service Pack 3 through Add/Remove Programs. This did fix my IT Assistant. I just won't be able to upgrade this certain server to SP3 until Dell or Microsoft comes up with a fix.

That worked for me as well, pulling the snmpapi.dll out of the \winnt\system32 directory and replacing the one in the BIN directory of IT Assistant.

Thanks

Hi,

The file I found to be v4.0 was in the c:\program files\dell\openmanage\it assistant\bin directory. I replaced that file with a 5.0 from c:\winnt\system32 and everything started. Since I'm replacing the Dell snmpapi.dll, I'm thinking the server would maintain stability but blow up the Dell stuff, which is where the problem is at already. I'll post if I encounter any issues from this fix.

-Greg

I found that it works without reinstall.  Just rename snmpapi.dll in IT Assistant\bin directory to, say snmpapi.dll.old, then copy SP3 version of snmpapi.dll from system32 directory into IT Assistant\bin directory and everything starts up just fine.

I found this article when I had the same errors after installing IT assistant for the first time on a Server 2000 SP3 machine.  After copying the SNMPAPI.DLL from WINNT/system32 to the IT assistant BIN folder it worked for me as well.  Just wanted to let everyone know.

Thanks

Rob Q

Just updated my PowerEdge 2400 server's Operating System to Windows 2000 SP4.  

Same issue occurred with IT Assistant.  Fix mentioned in earlier posts still works.  

To resolve this problem upgrade IT assistant to version 6.4.4 rather than backreving the .dll

Message Edited by DELL-SeanC on 11-20-2003 04:56 PM