SMC (Solaris Management Console)

On a fresh install of Sparc Solaris 9 - the SMC app works. Upon patching to yesterday's 9_Recommended - it fails - the applets all have red stop signs in the console, and it says someting like - 'There is no server running...' and 'No Solaris Management Console server was available on the specified server.'
This is in the console:
kermit console login: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/sadm/smc/properties/.s
erver (No such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:103)
at com.sun.management.viperimpl.util.security.SMCSSLConfig.setu pServer(S
MCSSLConfig.java:114)
at com.sun.management.viperimpl.server.ViperWbemServer.main(Vip erWbemSer
ver.java:61)
Starting Solaris Management Console server version 2.1.0.
endpoint created: :898
Solaris Management Console server is ready.
I have tried to stop/start/restart the server with the init.wbem script in /etc/init.d
Thanks for any hints!
S7

I was able to correct this problem on my server
The .server file is the smc java keystore that contains
the private/public key pair for SSL
You can create this file by executing
cd /usr/sadm/lib/smc/bin
certtool -genkey
Once the keys are generated execute
/etc/init.d/init.wbem stop
/etc/init.d/init.wbem start
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/spfaq

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