2588864 - Introscope Host Adapter error "A logon failure occured on <instance>" - SAP Solution Manager 7.2

During the Managed System Configuration of a JAVA System, the Introscope Host Adapter activity fails for one of the nodes with:

"On instance: <node_name>/<SID>

A logon failure occured on <node_name>/<SID>/<instance_number>"

In the Diagnostics Agent logs from the node, the following error can be seen:

"Error
Location: SMDloggerAgentApp
Text: P4 connection error to SAP system <SID>
[EXCEPTION]
javax.naming.NamingException: Exception during getInitialContext operation. Cannot establish connection to the remote server. [Root exception is com.sap.engine.services.security.exceptions.BaseLoginException: Exception in creating new RemoteLoginContext instance.]

...

Caused by: com.sap.engine.services.security.exceptions.BaseLoginException: Exception in creating new RemoteLoginContext instance.
at com.sap.engine.services.security.remote.login.RemoteLoginContext.<init>(RemoteLoginContext.java:164)
at com.sap.engine.services.jndi.implclient.LoginHelper.clientSideLogin(LoginHelper.java:77)
at com.sap.engine.services.jndi.InitialContextFactoryImpl.getInitialContext(InitialContextFactoryImpl.java:315)
... 22 more
Caused by: com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4IOException: No alive connection. Check state of the server
at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4ObjectBrokerClientImpl.getException(P4ObjectBrokerClientImpl.java:828)
at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4ObjectBrokerClientImpl.getException(P4ObjectBrokerClientImpl.java:813)
at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.ClientConnection.sendRequest(ClientConnection.java:362)
at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.P4ObjectBrokerClientImpl.resolveInitialReference(P4ObjectBrokerClientImpl.java:123)
at com.sap.engine.services.rmi_p4.RemoteBroker.resolveInitialReference(RemoteBroker.java:41)
at com.sap.engine.services.security.remote.login.RemoteLoginContext.<init>(RemoteLoginContext.java:153)
... 24 more"

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KBA , SV-SMG-DIA-WLY-HST , Host Adapter , Problem