Error while stopping Event Subsystem

System

I get the following error whlie stopping the event Subd using the following command: /iw-home/eventsubsystem/bin/eventsubd.sh stop


Defaulting EVENTSUBD_HOME to /app/iw-home/eventsubsystem
org.exolab.jms.tools.admin.OnlineConnectionException: Failed to connect: javax.jms.JMSException: Connection refused
at org.exolab.jms.tools.admin.OnlineConnection.(Unknown Source)
at org.exolab.jms.tools.admin.AdminMgr.main(Unknown Source)
Failed to initialize AdminMgr.
Exiting....

Can anyone identify the cause ??