Sophos SUM: SUM core daemon not running – restarted

When using Sophos UTM manager (SUM) to manage your UTM’s, you will find that it is a brilliant tool for central backup’s and firmware upgrades among other things.

Suddenly I kept getting theese mails at work:

“[INFO-132] SUM core daemon not running – restarted”

After some debugging at the SUM, I looked in the SUM Core logsfiles, I found this:

2020:10:10-00:00:00 sum accd: 6867436 [0xdc9dfb70] WARN server.device.DeviceCache null – DeviceCache::login() device is already connected 251[device;guid:<guid obfuscated for blog post);ip:<IP obfuscated for blog post)]
2020:10:10-00:00:00 sum accd: 6867436 [0xde9e3b70] WARN server.device.DeviceSession null – DeviceSession::clear() IO error during recv [device;guid:<guid obfuscated for blog post);ip:<IP obfuscated for blog post)]
2020:10:10-00:00:00 sum accd: 6867436 [0xea9fbb70] ERROR libs.io.Session null – send attempted after previous error [device;guid:<guid obfuscated for blog post);ip:<IP obfuscated for blog post)]
2020:10:10-00:00:00 sum accd: 6867436 [0xea9fbb70] WARN server.device.DeviceSession null – DeviceSession::clear() IO error during sendDone [device;guid:<guid obfuscated for blog post);ip:<IP obfuscated for blog post)]

So it looks like there are more than on UTM connected to this SUM with same GUID, no good!

This can happen if you import a backup to a new UTM device but did not take down the first one.

How to solve?

  1. Connect to the device not allowed to connect – in other words, connect to the IP above from the log file (obfuscated)
  2. Enable SSH
  3. Run this: rm -f /etc/guid
  4. And this: /var/mdw/scripts/nextgen-agent restart (restarting the next-gen agent will recreate a new guid for the one obove, that was deleted)
  5. Next you will find that this blocked device will now show up in SUM
  6. Case closed 🙂

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