well... the start of the cache locator has been commented out on the compute tier in the sas.servers.mid script. So the only cache locator that has been started is on the mid tier. Trying to use the SAS_lsm utility looks for a status of up on everything, so when it starts the compute tier and sees NOT UP for the cache locator on the compute , the utility quits, sends an email error message and does not start the mid tier. When I uncomment the cache locator on the compute - it comes up , however for whatever reason the cache locator then will not start on the mid tier. This left anything running thru a browser not able to work. I have checked configurations on this environment with another environment where the cache locator's start on both - see no differences. I have a ticket with SAS and they confirm that the configurations look correct. So the solution is to try to get both cache locators to start properly for the SAS_lsm utility to work. So it's not actually a SAS_lsm utility issue, but something with the cache locators themselves not being able to have both running at the same time.
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