SMagent wont start

I have a few DS4000 range storage arrays.
Some work just fine for in band and out of band communication.

I have a couple that (since applying updates to AIX early this year)
SMagent refuses to start (we are updating them to the 9.25 version).
What I get is the following output:

=>SMagent start
IBM FAStT Storage Manager Agent, Version 09.10.65.01
Built Tue Aug 17 21:59:19 GMT 2004
(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation, 2004
Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM. All rights reserved.
Checking device /dev/dac0 : Skipping
Checking device /dev/dac1 : Skipping
Checking device /dev/rhdisk1 : Skipping
Checking device /dev/rhdisk2 : Skipping
Checking device /dev/rhdisk3 : Skipping

The SMagent service attempted to start but terminated. Possible causes
include: [1] The access logical drive is disabled in NVSRAM. [2] No
controllers with compatible firmware were found. [3] The default
logical unit number (LUN) assigned to the access logical drive
(typically 7 or 31) is not in the range supported by the host or is
already in use by the host for another device. See your storage
management documentation for more details.

On antoher machine I get similar output except it is working and looks
like this:

=>SMagent start
IBM System Storage DS4000/FAStT Storage Manager Agent, Version
09.16.65.04
Built Sat Aug 12 21:46:38 GMT 2006
(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corporation, 2003-2006
Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM. All rights reserved.
Checking device /dev/rhdisk1 : Skipping
Checking device /dev/dac0 : Activating
Checking device /dev/dac1 : Activating
Checking device /dev/rhdisk2 : Skipping
Checking device /dev/rhdisk4 : Skipping

Running...


Has anyone seen this before?
The only difference I see is that the dac show activating on the
"working" machine.
I have checked driver revisions and I see the "broken" machine being
at the proper levels to support the drivers and software in question.

As far as I can tell this has something to do with RDAC driver, but it
looks good and the system accesses the DS4000 storage. We jsut cant do
in band management.

The most I have been able to locate on this is a bit in the storage
manager release .txt file:

"there is an additional e-fix that is required when using in band
client management that resolves a problem with the UTM discovery."

So far I have not been able to find this thing.

.

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