Cannot connect to remote servicemix: "... Failed to get the session."

[jbullock_jbullock]

I am a new user of Fuse ServiceMix.  I'm running ServiceMix 4.4.1 on CentOS 5.6.  I successfully started servicemix in console mode and in the background using the server argument.  I have successfully installed and connected to the webconsole.  I am trying to connect a remote client but the ssh:ssh command answers: 

Error executing command: Failed to get the session.

Server 1:

nohup ./bin/servicemix server &

Server 2:

./bin/servicemix client

...

karaf@root> ssh:ssh -l smx -P smx -p 8101 rsvsm1

Connecting to host rsvsm1 on port 8101

Error executing command: Failed to get the session.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[mjabali]

Hi John,

Just out of curiosity, are you able to connect to ServiceMix using any standard SSH tool if you run:

ssh -p 8101 localhost -l smx

in a terminal session on the same machine?

If so, can you try the same from a remote host and see what happens?

Also, you can set a different log level in ServiceMix with the following command:

karaf@root> log:set DEBUG

and check for any additional reason that's failing.

Just trying to isolate where the problem could be...

Hope this helps,

-Marcelo

[jbullock_jbullock]

Thanks for these suggestions, Marcelo.

I tried the standard ssh command and it worked!  I did not realize that this was a way to connect to a "server" servicemix process.  This is much better than what I had been trying to do: run a servicemix client process on another server and from it use ssh:ssh.

I will retry the two servicemix connection with DEBUG level logging and see what I learn.

Thanks!

John