Daemons for Business Events not starting

Hi all,

We are setting up event mesh to trigger integration with legacy applications. We have followed this blog:

https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/15/configure-sap-enterprise-messaging-for-sap-s-4-hana-on-premise-2020-via-service-key/comment-page-1/#comment-564227

And everything seems to be working up to the actiation of the event Channel.

When we test the channel connection before activation we get a green light:

We can activate the channel and it is showing a green light. But when we push check connection again, we get this error:

When we check the daemons in SMDAEMON, we see that no daemon has started. The daemons we need are in the 'Start-Up configuration'-screen in status 'pending':

Has anyone seen this problem before?

Thanks,

Philip