error: (111, 'Connection refused')" when starting osad service

Issue

• When starting osad on a client connected to the Satellite, the following error is observed.
  This error can also be generated from restarting the service rhn-satellite on the Satellite.

service osad restart
Starting osa-dispatcher: RHN 17400 2014/10/24 14:06:45 -05:00: ('Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 254, in setup_connection\n    c = self._get_jabber_client(js)\n  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 311, in _get_jabber_client\n    c.connect()\n  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 577, in connect\n    jabber.Client.connect(self)\n  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/jabber/xmlstream.py", line 464, in connect\n    else: self._sock.connect((self._hostIP, self._port))\n  File "<string>", line 1, in connect\nerror: (111, \'Connection refused\')\n',)