Security Management Server CA is not running

[fabiofabio]

hi, I am creating an environment from 0 to replace it with the one in production and I have stopped for a while on this problem:
I have two smart-1 R80-20 management servers, one primary and the other set as secondary. I add them in the smart console and see that the primary works, while the secondary gives this error "Security Management Server CA is not running"
I tried to look at some guides:

sk33224

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Management/Security-Management-Server-is-not-running/td-p/82915

https://www.cpug.org/forums/showthread.php/22097-Smartcenter-CA-is-not-running

this is all I found about it, but it doesn't solve my problem, also because they deal with old versions, ideas?
thank you all

[fabiofabio · Accepted solution]

it was a time mismatch problem, I don't know exactly if it was just the time or the fact that it was configured with NTP (and right now I'm not disconnected from the network); however, I set the time manually by removing the NTP, I did a restart of the two management and now it works correctly.
see that for more informations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGDOBlsAB8o&t=17s&ab_channel=fabirjbr

[the_rock]

Im glad you checked that, because I cant even count how many times I saw that people dont actually confirm times are correct on their mgmt/firewalls. Its such a small minor thing, but yet, it can and does cause issues like yours, as well as VPN problems, I had seen that in the past.