Server Manager (port 8998) is not up (JDE 1-click provisioning); how to resolve?

  I’m trying to deploy JD Edwards one-click provisioning for Windows (On Premise).  The deployment servers have all been prepared accoring to instructions.

I’m blocked executing the first step (default password change) of 1-click provisioning because Server Manager (which listens on port 8998) is down.

Weblogic admin server is up (port 7001).    Node manager is up (port 5556).  SMC is up (port 14501).  All these were started through jde-sm.ps1.

jde-e1-debug file contains Port 8998 is still DOWN

logs\E1ProvisionConsole.out contains {"task":"configSMC","status":"ERROR","statusMsg":"Server Manager Console is not running"}

One Oracle script tells me the ‘Server Manager is up’ and the other script tells me it is not.  There appear to be two (separate but related?) “server manager” processes, with the same name but different in most other aspects.  I do have a process listening on related port 8999 but that hasn’t helped me any yet.