When deploying Vulnerability Protection (VP) license from License Management of Apex Central, the following error message is encountered:

“License deployment was unsuccessful. Vulnerability Protection Service: Unknown Error”

• Based on the Command Details:

  

• Based on ivp_server0.log (C:\Program Files (x86)\Trend Micro\Apex One\iServiceSrv\iVP\):

  SEVERE: Retrying for the 3 time(s).
  com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host LOCALHOST, port 1433 has failed. Error: "Connection refused: connect. Verify the connection properties. Make sure that an instance of SQL Server is running on the host and accepting TCP/IP connections at the port. Make sure that TCP connections to the port are not blocked by a firewall.".
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDriverError(SQLServerException.java:191)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.ConvertConnectExceptionToSQLServerException(SQLServerException.java:242)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SocketFinder.findSocket(IOBuffer.java:2369)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSChannel.open(IOBuffer.java:551)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(SQLServerConnection.java:1963)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.login(SQLServerConnection.java:1628)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectInternal(SQLServerConnection.java:1459)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(SQLServerConnection.java:773)
      at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(SQLServerDriver.java:1168)
      at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:664)
      at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:247)
      at com.trendmicro.ivp.core.Core.initDatabase(Core.java:482)
      at com.trendmicro.ivp.core.Core.start(Core.java:99)
      at com.trendmicro.ivp.core.Core.main(Core.java:84)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
      at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(LauncherEngine.java:65)
      at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher$2.run(WinLauncher.java:96)
  

• Test connection from Apex One Server to SQL Server on port 1433 via PowerShell.

  Failed Result: