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Planning Analytics Administration Agent: "Agent unreachable" - In the Databases tab of the Planning Analytics Workspace administration page

Troubleshooting


Problem

 In the Databases tab of the Planning Analytics Workspace administration page, an "Agent unreachable" error is displayed at the top, and a "Cannot display resource information" error is displayed for each monitored TM1 Server database.

Symptom

Kate-agent service is running
We are able to open PAA service API site
https://TM1_FQDN:9012/pakate-agent/
In PAA messages.logs located in  <INSTAL_DIR>\tm1_64\paa_agent\wlp\usr\servers\kate-agent\logs we can see entries like
err] ERROR:status.py:Error while running get-wmiobject service command: get-wmiobject : Invalid class "win32_service"

At line:1 char:14

+ chcp 65001 ; get-wmiobject win32_service |where pathname -like '*tm1s ...

+              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidType: (:) [Get-WmiObject], ManagementException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMIManagementException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand

 


[err] ERROR:status.py:Error getting the Server Services Details: index out of range: 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "kateagent/scripts\status.py", line 297, in get_win_services
    name_index  = services[0].find("name")
IndexError: index out of range: 0
[err] ERROR:status.py:Error while running wmic process: Node
When try to run 
PS C:\Windows\system32> get-wmiobject win32_service |where pathname -like '*i*'
you will get
get-wmiobject : Invalid class "win32_service"
At line:1 char:1
+ get-wmiobject win32_service |where pathname -like '*i*'
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  + CategoryInfo     : InvalidType: (:) [Get-WmiObject], ManagementException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetWMIManagementException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetWmiObjectCommand

Cause

The OS is unable to run get-wmiobject and this cause that service is not running correctly.

Resolving The Problem

Register missing class with
 mofcomp %windir%\system32\wbem\cimwin32.mof

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
03 June 2022

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ibm16592165