[bgs999]

Hi,

Running BlackBerry Professional Software Version: 4.1.4.3 on windows Server 2003 sp2.

When the machine is rebooted the blackberry services don't start.
After logging machine on I can go to the services and manually click start for each one and they will start. The are all set to run under the domain besadmin account.
This is a member server seperate from the Exchange 2003 server.

The errors in the event log are:

Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Description:
The [BlackBerry MDS Connection Service/BlackBerry Controller/BlackBerry Dispatcher/BlackBerry Policy Service/BlackBerry Router/BlackBerry Synchronization Service] service failed to start due to the following error:
The account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is invalid for the account name specified.


However, since they can be started after logon the accounts and passwords must be correct.... so I'm not sure how to solve this one?

Any ideas please?

Regards,
Bryce.

[DavidAdams]

Sounds like the SQL server isn't fully up before the BES starts to login to it.

[katebang]

this is what i did..

set manual start for these services
-Blackberry Dispatcher
-Blackberry Policy Service
-Blackberry Synchronization Service
everytime you need to restart the BES, then u need to start these services manually.

i know there are ways to solve this by reinstalling the updated dot net frameworks 2.0 but i just dont have the guts to do it..

[stuwhite]

OP I've seen threads about this before, do a search on here and you will probably find the answer.

[freakinvibe]

Where is your SQL DB running? On the BES box?

[bgs999]

Originally Posted by freakinvibe

Where is your SQL DB running? On the BES box?

It is running on the BES box, just the msde version that installed with the product.

stuwhite: I did try searching this forum for an answer before posting but could not find anything to help my situation...

katebang: I know I can I start services manually, but it is not necessarily myself doing restarts - some users forget to start the services, and the server does not always get logged on once restarted either - until a blackberry user phones up to ask why its not working. I just updated the .Net framework 2.0 to service pack 2 (the latest I could find) but it did not help.

DavidAdams: I have now made the blackberry services dependant on the MSSQLSERVER service, but it made no difference to the automatic starting of the services.

Thanks - any further ideas welcome.
-bryce.

[freakinvibe]

The following things should be available before the BB services are started:

• network services up and running
• database reachable
• global catalog server reachable
• exchange reachable
• external RIM server reachable
• AD reachable

Can you check through the system event log after the startup errors. What services are starting after the ID 7000 errors?

Does the Attachment service start? It is the only service that is not started as the BESAdmin user.

Can you also look in the security event log to find out why the logon errors happen.

[fadmin]

Add BESAdmin acct to a logon as service policy item as well.

[TargetIT]

I had similar problems that eventually went away but I wrote a batch script to restart said services that I still run every 5 minutes. It's fairly generic as you can see. You create a list of services by simply running "net start >MasterServicesList.txt" and move that file into the directory where the batch program is. You can cut the list of services down to just what you want to monitor as well. It requires:

- blat to send the email alert out - also residing in the directory of the bstch file.
- A directory called ServicesNotStarted in the directory
- command extensions enabled
- A command argument of /ServiceRestart=YES if you want it to restart the services

Some tweaking is in order for the variables to suit your needs.

rem ***************** Service Error Handler **********************
rem * Version 1.00                                               *
rem **************************************************************
rem Reset and initialize variables

set servicefailcount=
set servicename=
set ServiceRestart=
set StartPath=%~dp0
set EmailText=%StartPath%Email.txt
set EmailServer=exchange:25
set EmailFrom=TechSupport@YourCompany.com
set EmailTo=TechSupport@YourCompany.com
set EmailSubject=Service Failure on %ComputerName%
set MasterServicesList=%StartPath%MasterServicesList.txt
set CurrentServicesList=%StartPath%CurrentServicesList.txt
set ServicesNotStarted=%StartPath%ServicesNotStarted.txt
set ServicesReStarted=%StartPath%ServicesReStarted.txt

del %ServicesNotStarted%
del %EmailText%

:Enumerateparameters

if "%1"=="" goto StartProcessing

:CheckIfSwitch

echo %1 | find "/"
if errorlevel 1 goto ParameterFailure

:CheckEachPossibleSwitch

if /i "%1"=="/ServiceRestart" set ServiceRestart=%~2& goto FoundParameter

:InvalidParameter

goto ParameterFailure

:FoundParameter

shift
shift
goto enumerateparameters

:ParameterFailure

echo Parameter Failure! > %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%
echo These were the command line parameters given: %* >> %EmailText%
goto email

:StartProcessing

if exist %MasterServicesList% goto CompareCurrentToMaster
echo Master Services List has not been created! > %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%
echo Some services MAY NOT BE RUNNING >> %EmailText%
goto email

:CompareCurrentToMaster

net start > %CurrentServicesList%
for /f "skip=2 delims=," %%i in (%MasterServicesList%) do (
	set CurrentService=%%i
	set CurrentService=!CurrentService:~3!
	find "!CurrentService!" %CurrentServicesList%
	if errorlevel 1 (
		if not exist "%StartPath%ServicesNotStarted\!CurrentService!" (
			echo !CurrentService!>> %ServicesNotStarted%
			echo. > "%StartPath%ServicesNotStarted\!CurrentService!"
		)			
	) else (
		if exist "%StartPath%ServicesNotStarted\!CurrentService!" echo !CurrentService!>> %ServicesReStarted%
		del "%StartPath%ServicesNotStarted\!CurrentService!"
	)
	)

if not exist %ServicesNotStarted% if not exist %ServicesRestarted% goto cleanup

echo Service Restart?: %ServiceRestart% >> %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%

if not exist %ServicesReStarted% goto ServicesNotStarted

:ServicesRestarted

echo Services that have ReStarted:>> %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%
type %ServicesReStarted% >> %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%

if not exist %ServicesNotStarted% goto footer

:ServicesNotStarted

echo Services Currently Not Running:>> %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%
for %%i in (%StartPath%ServicesNotStarted\*.*) do echo %%~ni Since: %%~ti>> %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%
if /i NOT "%ServiceRestart%"=="YES" goto footer
echo Services Restarting - Results Below: >> %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%
for %%i in (%StartPath%ServicesNotStarted\*.*) do (
	net stop "%%~ni" >> %EmailText%
	net start "%%~ni" >> %EmailText%
	)

:footer

echo Current Running Services: >> %EmailText%
echo. >> %EmailText%
net start  >> %EmailText%

:email

%StartPath%blat %EmailText% -q -to %EmailTo% -s "%EmailSubject%" -f %EmailFrom% -server %EmailServer% -priority 1

:Cleanup

del %emailtext%
del %ServicesNotStarted%
del %ServicesReStarted%
del %CurrentServicesList%
set servicefailcount=
set servicename=
set ServiceRestart=
set StartPath=
set EmailText=
set EmailServer=
set EmailFrom=
set EmailTo=
set EmailSubject=

:end

[bgs999]

Originally Posted by freakinvibe

Can you check through the system event log after the startup errors. What services are starting after the ID 7000 errors?

Two services start after the id 7000 errors: 'Network Location Awareness' and (sometimes) 'Network Connections' service. Both these seem to come back to 'Netman' (I think? C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs) so I made all the blackberry services also dependant on the Netman service but it made no difference...

Originally Posted by freakinvibe

Does the Attachment service start? It is the only service that is not started as the BESAdmin user.

Yes - the attachment service does start.

Originally Posted by freakinvibe

Can you also look in the security event log to find out why the logon errors happen.

This log shows only successful logons for besadmin at the times the services fail to start!! In fact there are no logon errors in the security event log.

Originally Posted by TargetIT

I had similar problems that eventually went away but I wrote a batch script to restart said services....

I will look at using this batch file - thanks. If I put it in the startup folder then at least the services will get started once someone logs the machine on.

*****************
AND - I should have seen this earlier in the system event log.
Immediately after the eventlog starts is a netlogon error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: NETLOGON
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5719
Description:
This computer was not able to set up a secure session with a domain controller in domain MyDomain due to the following:
There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.
This may lead to authentication problems. Make sure that this computer is connected to the network...

However, I can run nltest.exe from this machine and it verifies a secure channel to the domain. This is of course after the machine has been logged on - I'm not sure what to do about it happening immediately at startup?

*****************
Thanks for all your help. Still open to further suggestions as the above may indicate something to someone?

Regards,
Bryce Stenberg.