Z-Icon disappears

  • 7008509
  • 03-May-2011
  • 30-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management with Support Pack 3 - 10.3
Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management
Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management Support Pack 1 - ZCM 11 SP1

Situation

Randomly, the zicon disappears from Windows tray.
 
ERROR (in user temp zenicon.log)  
 
Unhandled exception
Type: System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingException
Message: An error occurred while processing the request on the server:
System.Security.SecurityException: Cannot open an anonymous level security
token.    at
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrentInternal(TokenAccessLevels
desiredAccess, Boolean threadOnly)
   at System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()
   at
System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc.IpcServerTransportSink.ServiceRequest(Object
state)
The Zone of the assembly that failed was:
MyComputer
Help Link:
Stack Trace: Server stack trace:
   at
System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc.IpcServerHandler.ReadToEndOfHeaders(BaseTransportHeaders
headers)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc.IpcClientHandler.ReadHeaders()
   at
System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Ipc.IpcClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage
msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream, ITransportHeaders&
responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
   at
System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage

Resolution

This is fixed in version 11.2 - see KB 7010044 "ZENworks Configuration Management 11.2 - update information and list of fixes" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support

Workaround:

  1. Start Task Manager
  2. Click the Processes tab
  3. Select ZenNotifyIcon.exe process and click End Process
  4. Launch %ZENWORKS_HOME%\bin\ZenNotifyIcon.exe

Status

Reported to Engineering

Additional Information

Other failure messages in zenicon.log may have other fixes.  Example:
 
Failed to create an IPC Port: Access is denied .  See Recommended ZCM Anti-Virus Exclusions TID  https://support.microfocus.com/kb/doc.php?id=7007545