error connection refused after npm start

[ssivakumaravel13]

Hi. am getting this connection refused error, dont know what causing it

c:\C>git clone https://github.com/device-management-toolkit/mps.git && cd mps
Cloning into 'mps'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 15109, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1079/1079), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (532/532), done.
remote: Total 15109 (delta 968), reused 550 (delta 547), pack-reused 14030 (from 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (15109/15109), 17.51 MiB | 21.25 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (11065/11065), done.

c:\C\mps>npm install

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c:\C\mps>npm start

@open-amt-cloud-toolkit/mps@2.26.5 start
npm run build && node ./dist/index.js

@open-amt-cloud-toolkit/mps@2.26.5 build
tsc --project tsconfig.build.json && genversion dist/utils/version.js --es6

2026-05-13T13:07:17.711Z error: jwt secret is mandatory.

c:\C\mps>npm start

@open-amt-cloud-toolkit/mps@2.26.5 start
npm run build && node ./dist/index.js

@open-amt-cloud-toolkit/mps@2.26.5 build
tsc --project tsconfig.build.json && genversion dist/utils/version.js --es6

2026-05-13T13:08:46.815Z info: waiting for db[1] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:08:46.929Z info: waiting for db[2] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:08:47.133Z info: waiting for db[3] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:08:47.538Z info: waiting for db[4] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:08:48.348Z info: waiting for db[5] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:08:49.953Z info: waiting for db[6] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:08:53.169Z info: waiting for db[7] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:08:59.588Z info: waiting for db[8] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:09:12.396Z info: waiting for db[9] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:09:38.021Z info: waiting for db[10] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:09:38.022Z error: Error starting MPS microservice. Check server logs.
2026-05-13T13:09:38.024Z error: AggregateError

c:\C\mps>npm start

@open-amt-cloud-toolkit/mps@2.26.5 start
npm run build && node ./dist/index.js

@open-amt-cloud-toolkit/mps@2.26.5 build
tsc --project tsconfig.build.json && genversion dist/utils/version.js --es6

2026-05-13T13:15:02.293Z info: waiting for db[1] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:02.410Z info: waiting for db[2] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:02.615Z info: waiting for db[3] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:03.027Z info: waiting for db[4] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:03.834Z info: waiting for db[5] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:05.453Z info: waiting for db[6] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:08.659Z info: waiting for db[7] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:15.074Z info: waiting for db[8] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:27.891Z info: waiting for db[9] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:53.497Z info: waiting for db[10] ECONNREFUSED
2026-05-13T13:15:53.497Z error: Error starting MPS microservice. Check server logs.
2026-05-13T13:15:53.498Z error: AggregateError

c:\C\mps>

[graikhel-intel]

Have you tried going through the prerequisite setup steps first? https://device-management-toolkit.github.io/docs/2.33/GetStarted/Cloud/prerequisites

MPS expects both the database and Vault to be running before startup. Without those services available, MPS initialization will fail.