Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 Release Notes

Administration

This section describes known administration issues and associated solutions.

The package-appclient script does not work if domain1 is not present. (ID 6171458)

Description

By default, there is a hard-coded value in $INSTALL/lib/package-appclient.xml for the AS_ACC_CONFIG variable for domain1 that is pointed to by asenv.conf. If domain1 is deleted and a new domain created, the AS_ACC_CONFIG variable is not updated with the new domain name, which causes the package-appclient script to fail.

Solution

Do one of the following:

Installing the Load Balancing Plugin will overwrite an existing plugin. (ID 6172977)

Description

If you install the Load Balancing plugin against an installation of the Application Server that already has a Load Balancer plugin installed (for example, from 7.1EE), then the 8.2EE plugin will silently replace any existing Load Balancer, even if you have created a new server instance in which to run the plugin.

The plugin files are installed by default under the install_dir/plugins/lbplugin directory, which means that only one version of a plugin can be used with any one Application Server installation. Note that the console installer does display a message indicating that an uninstall is being performed, but this message can sometimes be easy to miss.

Solution

Not everyone will encounter this problem. If you do encounter the problem, remove the old Application Server installation and do a fresh install rather than doing an upgrade installation.

Several Changes in asadmin script in JES3 Application Server 8.2 compared to JES2 AS7 (ID 6189433, 6189436)

There have been several changes made to the asadmin command in Application Server 8.2 compared to Application Server 7.x. For example, in 7.x, the command to start a server instance is:


asadmin start-instance

In 8.2, the equivalent command is:


asadmin start-domain --user admin domain1

Refer to the following documents for complete information about the latest asadmin command syntax:

Default ports changed in Application Server (ID 6198555)

Description

When upgrading to JES5/Application Server 8.2 from JES2/Application Server 7.x, you may experience incompatibilities or errors because the default ports have changed.

Solution

Refer to Other Requirements eariler in these notes for a listing of the default ports used in Application Server 8.2.

Cannot restore backed-up domain with another name. (ID 6196993)

Description

Mirroring of a domain on the same Application Server installation cannot be performed using the backup-domain and restore-domain commands because the domain cannot be restored using a different name than the original, even though the asadmin restore-domain command provides an option to rename the domain. Renaming the backed-up domain appears to succeed, but attempts to start the renamed domain fail because the entries in the domain configuration are not changed, and startserv and stopserv use the original domain name to set paths.

Solution

The domain name used for restore-domain must be the same as that used for the original backup-domain command. The backup-domain and restore-domain commands in Application Server 8.2 work only for backing up and restoring the same domain on the same machine.

Starting Application Server with additional JMX Agent is not supported. (ID 6200011)

Description

J2SE 1.4.x, 5.0, or later can be configured on the Application Server. An integral feature of J2SE 5.0 platform is the ability to start a JMX agent. This is activated when you explicitly set system properties at the server startup.

Example values include:

name="com.sun.management.jmxremote" value="true"
name="com.sun.management.jmxremote.port" value="9999"
name="com.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate" value="false"
name="com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl" value="false"

After configuring JMX properties and starting the server, a new jmx-connector server is started within the Application Server VM. An undesirable side-effect of this is that the administration functions are affected adversely, and the Application Server administration GUI and CLI may produce unexpected results. The problem is that there are some conflicts between the built in jmx-connector server and the new jmx-connector server.

Solution

If using jconsole (or any other JMX-compliant client), consider reusing the standard JMX Connector Server that is started with Application Server startup.

When the server starts up, a line similar to the one shown below appears in the server.log. You can connect to the JMXServiceURL specified there and perform the same management/configuration operations after successfully providing the credentials; for example:

[#|2004-11-24T17:49:08.203-0800|INFO|sun-appserver-ee8.1|javax.enterprise.
system.tools.admin|_ThreadID=10;|ADM1501: Here is the JMXServiceURL for the 
JMXConnectorServer: [service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://hostname:8686/management/
rmi-jmx-connector]. This is where the remote administrative clients should 
connect using the JSR 160 JMX Connectors.|#]

For more information, refer to the Sun Java System Application Server 8.2 Administration Guide.

On UNIX, overly restrictive execute permissions on Application Server start and stop scripts. (ID 6206176)

Description

If you run the asadmin restore-domain command while logged in as user "A", the scripts will end up with permissions as 744 (rwxr--r--). If you subsequently attempt to start or stop a domain as user "B" (even if "B" is root), it will fail because the scripts are only executable for "A".

Solution

Change the permissions on the scripts:


chmod 755 appserv/domains/domain-name/bin/*

Load balancer configuration file does not get created with the endpoint URL of any web service. (ID 6236544, 6275436)

Description

When setting up the load balancer configuration with an application that has an EJB module that exports a web service URL, the context root for the web service isn't in the resulting loadbalancer.xml file.

Solution

  1. Edit the loadbalancer.xml file to add the missing web module as follows:


    <web-module context-root="context-root-name"
    disable-timeout-in-minutes="30" enabled="true"/>
  2. Replace context-root-name value with the context root name of the web service that was exposed as an EJB.

Java Home Setting inside Configuration does not take effect. (ID 6240672)

Description

Application Server domains/servers do not use the JDK pointed to by java-home attribute of java-config element of associated configuration.

Solution

The JDK used by the Application Server processes for all the domains in a given server installation is determined by the appserver-installation-dir/config/asenv.conf file. The property AS_JAVA in this file determines the JDK used and is set at the time of installation. If a different JDK is to be used by Application Server processes after the installation is completed, this value can be modified to point to another JDK. Note that all domains in this installation will be affected by this change.


Note –

Manual changes to asenv.conf file are not checked for validity and hence care should be exercised while changing them. Check the product documentation for minimum JDK version requirements when modifying the value for AS_JAVA.


Application Server restart using sun-appserv-admin causes LoginException error. (ID 6288893)

Description

This problem is caused by a wrong value for %CONFIG_HOME%.

Solution

  1. Rename the existing to asant.bak.

  2. Copy the asant.template file in <as_install>/lib/install/templates/ee (for SE/EE version) to the <as_install>/bin/ directory and rename the file asant.

  3. Edit the newly copied <as_install>/bin/asant script, replacing the %CONFIG_HOME% token with <as_install>/config.

  4. If there were any manual changes made to the original asant.bak file, merge them into the new asant script.

The .asadmintruststore file is not described in the Application Server documentation. (ID 6315957)

Description

If this file does not exist in the server administrator's home directory, you may experience serious bugs when upgrading certain applications hosted on the server.

Solution

Domain fails to start when create-domain master password has special characters. (ID 6345947)

Description

Domain does not start when the domain's master password contains the percent (%) character.

Solution

The domain's master password should not contain a percent character (%). This applies when creating a new domain or changing the master password for an existing domain.

Load Balancer configuration changes in magnus.conf and obj.conf get overwritten (ID 6394181)

Description

After creating a secure http-listener and installing lbplugin, the magnus.conf and obj.conf files under the webserver_instance_dir/config are getting modifiedand the lbplugin contents are getting removed.

The installer modifies the magnus.conf and obj.conf configuration files on the Application Server as part of the installation of the load balancer plugin. If you log in to the Application Server admin console and try to manage the instance configuration for the instance on which the load balancer has been installed, the Application Server gives a warning message stating that it has detected a manual edit in the configuration. This warning is in fact referring to the changes made by the installer.

Solution

Verify that the changes made by the installer have not been overwritten.

Unable to start server instance on Txxxx series (Niagara) machines. (6860787)

Description

On T2000 and T5xxx machines there is possibility of JMX timeouts happening and preventing synchronization. The process of binding the JMX/JMX connection to the domain administration server (DAS) is bounded to 5 seconds. If the JMX connection plus the handshake takes more that 5 seconds, the JMX connection might be deemed a failure. This seems to happen more on a T-series machine, especially if the ORB+SSL initialization takes more time. However, this type of failure also happens in other machine/architecture situations.

Solution

  1. Increase the default values from 5 seconds. 10 seconds should be acceptable, unless the target DAS/network is extremely loaded. (2-4 seconds is the approximate subsystem setup overhead for the ORB/SSL/RMI connection even on a normal Sun v240.)

  2. In Application Server, use the flags (as JVM options) to set the JMX timeout of the synchronization, and other JMX connections if needed.

    • Set the timeout by using DJMXCONNECTOR_TIMEOUT_MILLISEC=<timeout>

    • Turn the timeout off and revert to the old behavior by using DDISABLE_JMXCON_THREAD=true

. As these are JDK options, the synchronization can happen as follows: