SUMMARY
An SNA Server connection may remain inactive. You cannot reactivate the
connection using SNA Administrator. Here are some possible causes and
resolutions:
The SNA Server Service Owning the Connection Is Inactive
Start the SNA Server service using SNA Server Admin (SNA Server 2.x), SNA Server Manager (SNA Server 3.0), or SNA Manager (Host Integration Server). In order for the SNA Server service to
start, all SNA Server link services installed by SNA Setup must also start
successfully.
SNA Server Shows [Out of Date]
If a new connection is defined in SNA Server Admin or SNA Server Manager
when SNA Server is running, the server status appears as "Active [Out of
Date]." This indicates that the SNA Server service must be restarted to
enable the configuration changes. When a new connection is created, the SNA
Server service must be stopped and restarted to enable the change.
The SNA Server Backup Server Had an Old Configuration File
The SNABase service running on the SNA Server primary and backup
configuration servers automatically handles the replication of the SNA
Server configuration file. However, if security is enabled on the COMCFG
share point, or NTFS file permissions restrict access to the configuration
file, <SNAROOT>\SYSTEM\CONFIG\COM.CFG, the configuration file on the backup
configuration server may be out of date. To test this, copy the
configuration file from the primary to the backup server:
copy \\<primary>\comcfg\com.cfg \\<backup>\comcfg\com.cfg
where <primary> is the SNA Server primary configuration server and <backup>
is the SNA Server backup server. After you copy the configuration file,
you'll need to restart the SNA Server service on any backup servers.
By default, the SNABase service runs under the Windows NT Local System
context in SNA Server versions prior to 3.0. SNA Server services including
SNABase normally run under a user account specified during SNA Server Setup
for SNA Server versions 3.0 and later. If the Everyone group does not have
Read access to the COMCFG share point on the primary server, or Full
Control access on the backup server, the replication to the backup server will fail.
See Chapter 12, "Setting Up Security with SNA Server," in the SNA Server
Administrator's Guide for a full discussion on limiting user access to the
SNA Server configuration file. In addition, Article
140556 (Securing SNA
Server to Not Require Everyone: Read Access) explains how to tighten the
secuity on the SNA Server configuration file.