Troubleshooting Remote Management Issues

This section covers how to troubleshoot issues related to remote management.

7.1. Things to Check When Getting SIC Failures

The most obvious things to check: Is there connectivity? From one module, can you Telnet to the other module on port 18191? If a TCP connection isn't established, is there some sort of router or firewall that might be blocking this communication? Is the firewall itself blocking the communication?

If the firewall has the default filter loaded, try the command fw unloadlocal. This unloads the security policy, so be careful! You will want to load a proper security policy as soon as possible after doing this.

SIC relies on a process called cpd, which is responsible for performing all ...

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