EM13cR2 Installation failing on BI publisher configuration

This is going to be a short post as there wasn’t much information on this type of failure when searching for it. Also, the IP’s are changed due to security reasons

I was working on an Oracle EM13cR2 installation and when the installation reached 78%, it failed on the BI Publisher configuration. First, I looked at the CfmLogger log.

[bash] INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:WLST offline debugging is in the file: /u01/app/oracle/middleware/cfgtoollogs/bip/bipca_20170613152059.log.wlst_20170613152122.trc
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Securing BI Publisher to work with Enterprise Manager
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Locking Enterprise Manager …
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:OMS Console is locked. Access the console over HTTPS ports.
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:BI Publisher is locked. Access BI Publisher over HTTPS ports.
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Restart OMS.
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Restarting Enterprise Manager
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Stopping Enterprise Manager, this can take some time …
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Starting BI Publisher …
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Failed to start Enterprise Manager. Diagnostic code 1.
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:See log at /u01/app/oracle/middleware/cfgtoollogs/bip/bipca_20170613152059.log for details.
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:Error extending domain
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:See log at /u01/app/oracle/middleware/cfgtoollogs/bip/bipca_20170613152059.log for details.
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms:java.lang.Exception: See log at /u01/app/oracle/middleware/cfgtoollogs/bip/bipca_20170613152059.log for details.
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms: at oracle.sysman.sdkImpl.core.ip.model.bipca.BIPCA.extendDomainWithBIP(BIPCA.java:3401)
INFO: oracle.sysman.top.oms: at oracle.sysman.sdkImpl.core.ip.model.bipca.BIPCA.main(BIPCA.java:1973)
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When this led me to the bipca.log , it referenced the details below (which really didn’t tell me much):

[bash] [2017-05-09T21:55:17.585-07:00] [sysman] [ERROR] [] [oracle.sysman.bipca] [host: OracleEntMgr] [nwaddr: 192.168.51.10] [tid: 1] [userId: oracle] [ecid: a4412d2a-def5-49d8-ac27-1046c7243de9-00000001,0] [SRC_CLASS: oracle.sysman.sdkImpl.core.ip.model.bipca.BIPCA] [SRC_METHOD: handleFatalError] Error extending domain
[2017-05-09T21:55:17.586-07:00] [sysman] [ERROR] [] [oracle.sysman.bipca] [host: OracleEntMgr] [nwaddr: 192.168.51.10] [tid: 1] [userId: oracle] [ecid: a4412d2a-def5-49d8-ac27-1046c7243de9-00000001,0] [SRC_CLASS: oracle.sysman.sdkImpl.core.ip.model.bipca.BIPCA] [SRC_METHOD: handleFatalError] Fatal error:[[
java.lang.Exception: See log at /u01/app/oracle/middleware/cfgtoollogs/bip/bipca_20170509214828.log for details.
at oracle.sysman.sdkImpl.core.ip.model.bipca.BIPCA.extendDomainWithBIP(BIPCA.java:3401)
at oracle.sysman.sdkImpl.core.ip.model.bipca.BIPCA.main(BIPCA.java:1973)
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A review of the bipca trace file didn’t tell me much about why the configuration was failing:

[bash] 2017-05-24 09:26:51,250 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – Selected DB vendor: Oracle
2017-05-24 09:26:51,250 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – adding normal datasource: emgc-mgmt_view-pool
2017-05-24 09:26:51,250 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – datasource: emgc-mgmt_view-pool component name: null
2017-05-24 09:26:51,251 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – Found normal datasource: emgc-sysman-pool
2017-05-24 09:26:51,253 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – Decomposing url: jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=dbhost)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=emrep))) for driver: oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
2017-05-24 09:26:51,253 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – There is an unsupported jdbc URL or JDBC driver is detected. See Stack trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper.decomposeURL(DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper.java:316)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at weblogic.WLST.main(WLST.java:29)
2017-05-24 09:26:51,253 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – Found normal datasource: jvmd-ds
2017-05-24 09:26:51,255 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – Decomposing url: jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=dbhost)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=emrep))) for driver: oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
2017-05-24 09:26:51,255 FINE [1] com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper – There is an unsupported jdbc URL or JDBC driver is detected. See Stack trace:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.oracle.cie.domain.jdbc.DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper.decomposeURL(DatasourceXBeanAspectHelper.java:316)
at org.python.pycode._pyx95.updateDomain$21(/tmp/WLSTOfflineIni822569357732826272.py:103)
at org.python.pycode._pyx95.call_function(/tmp/WLSTOfflineIni822569357732826272.py)
at org.python.core.PyTableCode.call(Unknown Source)
at org.python.core.PyTableCode.call(Unknown Source)
at org.python.core.PyFunction.__call__(Unknown Source)
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After reading for a while and working back and forth with Oracle, we identified the problem. The host wasn’t resolving via nslookup. Though we were able to ping it, what nslookup does is query a DNS domain nameserver to lookup and find IP address and it , so what we had to do was fix this :

[bash] [oracle@dbhost ~]# nslookup dbhost
Server: 128.101.1.256
Address: 128.101.1.256#53

Name: dbhost
Address: 128.101.1.1

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Once we fixed this, we were able to install EM13cR2 successfully.