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Process Control Error: Authentication being used is not FIPS compliant. Use PAM for external authentication.

Troubleshooting


Problem

We have configured the ObjectServer and clients for FIPS authentication however PA fails to start with the following message:
Error: Authentication being used is not FIPS compliant. Use PAM for external authentication.
There are also "Net-Lib protocol driver call to register a listener failed" messages observed in the ObjectServer.log file.

Symptom

The following output is generated on the start screen:
omniserv</opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/bin># ./nco_pad -name NCO_PA -messagelevel debug
Netcool/OMNIbus Process Agent Daemon - Version 8.1.0 64-bit
        Netcool/OMNIbus PA API Library Version 8.1.0 64-bit
        Sybase Server-Library Release: 15.0

Server Settings :
        Name of server                : NCO_PA
        Path of used log file         : /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/log/NCO_PA.log
        Configuration File            : /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/etc/nco_pa.conf
        Child Output File             : /dev/null
        Maximum logfile size          : 1024
        Thread stack size             : 307200
        Message Pool size             : 45568
        PID Message Pool size         : 50
        Rogue Process Timeout         : 30
        Truncate Log                  : False
        Instantiate server to daemon  : True
        Internal API Checking         : False
        No Configuration File         : False
        Start Auto-start services     : True
        Authentication System         : UNIX
        Trace Net library             : False
        Trace message queues          : False
        Trace event queues            : False
        Trace TDS packets             : False
        Trace mutex locks             : False
        Host DNS name                 : omniserv
        PID file (from $OMNIHOME)     : ./var/NCO_PA.pid
        Kill Process group            : False
        Secure Mode                   : False
        Administration Group Name     : ncoadmin
        Properties file               : /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/etc/NCO_PA.props
        Message level                 : Debug
        Host Alias Lookups            : True
Error: Authentication being used is not FIPS compliant. Use PAM for external authentication.
Forking to a Daemon Process.............
In the ObjectServer.log file we see:
Fatal: F-IVM-005-001: OpenServer - Fatal Error: 16029/20/0: Failed to start any network listeners
Error: E-IVM-005-002: OpenServer - Error: 16240/10/0: Net-Libraryroutine sybnet_listen() failed in srv__start_net
Network error: status = 23 - Net-Lib protocol driver call to register a listener failed
Error -1:Socket bind failed - errno 67 The socket name is already in use.
We are however able to connect clients including nco_sql to the ObjectServer

Document Location

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Modified date:
09 May 2025

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