Configuring Identity Management Components - Error in starting opmn server

Question

Hello,
I have a VM, which is being administered by VMware Lab Manager. The VM is running RHEL 5.1, and has an Oracle 11g database installed.
I am in the process of trying to install and configure Oracle Internet Directory 11g. To do this, I ran the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Oracle Identity Management Installer. I selected the "Install Software - Do Not Configure" installation type, and chose to "Configure without a Domain" in order to avoid having to install and administer a WebLogic domain. I set "/data1/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.1" as the Oracle Middleware Home, and "Oracle_IDM1" as the Oracle Home Directory. (To simplify things below, let ORACLE_IDM_HOME refer to the /data1/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.1/Oracle_IDM1" directory... understand that no environment variable exists with this name though.) The installation routine ran successfully.
But, I ran into a problem while trying to configure the Oracle Identity Management 11g components. I ran the Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 Configuration Wizard (ORACLE_IDM_HOME/bin/config.sh). Here are some of the key configuration values that I entered:
- Oracle Instance Location: /data1/u01/config/oracle/as_admin/asinst_1
- Oracle Instance Name: asinst_1
- Select Domain: Configure without a Domain
- Configure Components: Oracle Internet Directory
- Configure Ports: Auto Port Configuration
- Specify Schema Database: Create Schema
After entering my configuration values and hitting the Configure button, the configuration process started running. Shortly thereafter, under Bootstrap Domain Configuration, "Failed" appeared next to the "Create ASInstance" line, with the following error listed:
{code}
Error creating ASInstance asinst_1
Cause: An internal operation has failed: Error in starting opmn server
Operation aborted because of a system call failure or internal error
{code}
In case it would be helpful, here is the output from the error log for the Oracle Identity Management 11g Configuration Wizard:
{code}
oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException:
Error creating ASInstance asinst_1.
Cause:
An internal operation has failed: Error in starting opmn server
Operation aborted because of a system call failure or internal error
Action:
See logs for more details.
at oracle.as.provisioning.util.ConfigException.createConfigException(ConfigException.java:123)
at oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv._createInstance(ASInstanceProv.java:306)
at oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv.createInstance(ASInstanceProv.java:163)
at
oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv.createInstanceAndComponents(ASInstanceProv.java:114)
at
oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor._createASInstancesAndComponents(WorkFlowExecutor.java:533)
at
oracle.as.provisioning.engine.WorkFlowExecutor.executeWLSWorkFlow(WorkFlowExecutor.java:437)
at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.Config.executeConfigWorkflow_WLS(Config.java:870)
at oracle.as.provisioning.engine.Config.executeConfigWorkflow_WLS(Config.java:824)
at oracle.as.idm.install.config.BootstrapConfigManager.doExecute(BootstrapConfigManager.java:1256)
at
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.client.ConfigAction.execute(ConfigAction.java:335)
at
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.run(TaskPerformer.java:87)
at
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.TaskPerformer.startConfigAction(TaskPerformer.java:104)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.ActionRequest.perform(ActionRequest.java:15)
at
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.action.RequestQueue.perform(RequestQueue.java:63)
at
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.standard.StandardConfigActionManager.start(StandardConfigActionManager.java:158)
at
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.boot.ConfigurationExtension.kickstart(ConfigurationExtension.java:81)
at
oracle.as.install.engine.modules.configuration.ConfigurationModule.run(ConfigurationModule.java:82)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: oracle.as.management.opmn.optic.OpticException: Error in starting opmn server
Operation aborted because of a system call failure or internal error
at oracle.as.management.opmn.optic.OpmnAdmin.executeCommand(OpmnAdmin.java:255)
at oracle.as.management.opmn.optic.OpmnAdmin.startOpmnServer(OpmnAdmin.java:87)
at oracle.as.provisioning.fmwadmin.ASInstanceProv._createInstance(ASInstanceProv.java:251)
... 16 more
{code}
To get more information, I tried to manually start the opmn server (I set ORACLE_INSTANCE to "/data1/u01/config/oracle/as_admin/asinst_1" and then ran "./opmnctl start" from the ORACLE_IDM_HOME/opmn/bin directory). As expected, the server failed to start. But, I checked the opmn.out file (in the ORACLE_INSTANCE/diagnostics/logs/OPMN/opmn directory), and found the following error repeated several times:
{code}
OPMN worker process exited with status 8b. Restarting.
OPMN worker process exited with status 8b. Restarting.
OPMN worker process terminated with signal 11 7 times in 10 seconds -- aborting!
{code}
Does anyone know what this error means? I am at a loss as to what to do at this point, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Answer 1

h1. UPDATE:
I just needed internet access to download the sysstat and compat-db packages, once installed I disconnected from the internet and re-run the installation, once again, it went fine without problems and opmn and OID are up and running. Also, I enabled the firewall which was disabled during the first installation.
Here is the list of packages needed as pre-requisites:
gcc-4.1.0-28.4, gcc-c++-4.1.0-28-4, setarch-1.6-1, libstdc++-4.1.0, libstdc++-devel-4.1.0, compat-libstdc++-2.96, control-center-2.8.0, glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9, binutils-2.16.91, make-3.80 on top of sysstat-5.0.5-1 and compat-db-4.1.25-9.
There are 3 configuration files for opmn: instance.properties, opmn.xml and ports.prop..... and for OID: component-logs.xml
h2. instance.properties:
#These properties are generally used as default values for arguments not specified on the command line. When an argument is provided on the command line, the corresponding property is overwritten in this file.
#Tue Aug 18 19:58:35 MDT 2009
oracleHome=/home/oracle/bea_default/Oracle_IDM1
registered=falseh2. opmn.xml:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<opmn xmlns="http://www.oracle.com/ias-instance">
   <log comp="internal;ons;pm" rotation-size="1500000"/>
   <debug comp="" rotation-size="1500000"/>
   <notification-server interface="any">
      <port local="6700" remote="6701"/>
      <ssl enabled="true" wallet-file="/home/oracle/as_admin/asinst_1/config/OPMN/opmn/wallet"/>
   </notification-server>
   <process-manager>
      <process-modules>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmnohs">
            <module-id id="OHS2"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmncustom">
            <module-id id="CUSTOM"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmnoid">
            <module-id id="OID"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmnbi">
            <module-id id="BIServer"/>
            <module-id id="BIScheduler"/>
            <module-id id="BIPresentationServices"/>
            <module-id id="BIClusterController"/>
            <module-id id="BIJavaHost"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmnovd">
            <module-id id="OVD"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmnwc">
            <module-id id="WebCache"/>
            <module-id id="WebCache-admin"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmnreports">
            <module-id id="ReportsServices"/>
            <module-id id="ReportsBridgeServices"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmndisco">
            <module-id id="Disco_ServicesStatus"/>
            <module-id id="Disco_SessionServer"/>
            <module-id id="Disco_PreferenceServer"/>
         </module>
         <module path="$ORACLE_HOME/opmn/lib/libopmnemagent">
            <module-id id="EMAGENT"/>
         </module>
      </process-modules>
      <ias-instance id="asinst_1" name="asinst_1">
        <environment>
           <variable id="TEMP" value="/tmp"/>
           <variable id="TMP" value="/tmp"/>
        </environment>
      <ias-component id="EMAGENT">
  <process-type id="EMAGENT" module-id="EMAGENT">
    <process-set id="EMAGENT" numprocs="1">
      <ping interval="0"/>
    </process-set>
  </process-type>
</ias-component><ias-component id="oid1" type="OID">
  <process-type id="oidmon" module-id="OID">
    <process-set id="OID" numprocs="1">
      <environment>
        <variable id="TNS_ADMIN" value="/home/oracle/as_admin/asinst_1/config"/>
     <variable id="DB_CONNECT_STR" value="OIDDB"/>
      </environment>
      <module-data>
        <category id="oidmon-parameters">
       <data id="start-cmdline-opts" value="connect=$DB_CONNECT_STR opmnuid=true start"/>
       <data id="stop-cmdline-opts" value="connect=$DB_CONNECT_STR opmnuid=true stop"/>
     </category>
      </module-data>
    </process-set>
  </process-type>
  <process-type id="oidldapd" status="phantom">
    <process-set id="oidldapd" status="phantom" numprocs="2"/>
  </process-type>
</ias-component></ias-instance>
      <rmd-definitions>
         <!-- Audit Loader Setup TODO
              Update the interval for Audit Loader to control how frequently
              the Standalone Audit Loader gets invoked (seconds).
         -->
         <rmd name="AuditLoader" interval="315360000">
             <conditional>
                 ({time}>=00:00)
             </conditional>
             <!-- Audit Loader Setup TODO
                  Before Updating the action snippet below, please update the
                  password in the Secret Store
             -->
             <!-- Audit Loader Setup TODO
                  Update the jdbcString (@%host%:%port%:%sid%)
                  Update the username (%username%)
                  Update the password (%password%) in Secret Store by adding
                  2 more system properties:
                     -Dstore.password=true
                     -Dauditloader.password=%password%
             -->
             <action value="exec $ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin/java -classpath $ORACLE_HOME/modules/oracle.osdt_11.1.1/osdt_cert.jar$:$ORACLE_HOME/modules/oracle.osdt_11.1.1/osdt_core.jar$:$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/ojdbc5.jar$:$ORACLE_HOME/modules/oracle.iau_11.1.1/fmw_audit.jar$:$ORACLE_HOME/modules/oracle.pki_11.1.1/oraclepki.jar -Doracle.home=$ORACLE_HOME -Doracle.instance=$ORACLE_INSTANCE -Dauditloader.jdbcString=jdbc:oracle:thin:@%host%:%port%:%sid% -Dauditloader.username=%username% oracle.security.audit.ajl.loader.StandaloneAuditLoader" timeout="60"/>
             <exception value="exec /bin/echo PERIODICAL CALL FOR Audit Loader FAILED"/>
         </rmd>
      </rmd-definitions>
      <launch-targets>
        <launch-target id="logquery">
          <exec path="$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin/java"/>
          <argument value="-classpath"/>
          <argument value="$ORACLE_HOME/modules/oracle.odl_11.1.1/ojdl.jar$:$ORACLE_HOME/modules/oracle.odl_11.1.1/ojdl2.jar"/>
          <argument value="-Djava.encoding=utf-8"/>
          <argument value="oracle.as.management.logging.tools.LogQuery"/>
          <argument value="-i"/>
          <argument value="$ORACLE_INSTANCE"/>
        </launch-target>
      </launch-targets>
   </process-manager>
</opmn>h2. ports.prop:
#Tue Aug 18 19:58:35 MDT 2009
/opmn/remote_port=6701
/oid1/asinst_1_nonSSLPort=3060
/oid1/asinst_1_SSLPort=3131
/opmn/local_port=6700
/EMAGENT/emd-port=5162h2. component-logs.xml
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<logs xmlns="http://www.oracle.com/iAS/EMComponent/ojdl">
<log path="diagnostics/logs/OID/oid1/oidldapd%NUM%s%PID%-0000.log" componentId="OID">
  <logreader class="oracle.core.ojdl.reader.ODLTextLogReaderFactory">
   <property name="FilenameFormat" value="oidldapd%NUM%s%PID%-{0}.log"/>
   <property name="FileRotation" value="circular"/>
   <property name="ComponentId" value="OID"/>
  </logreader>
</log>
<log path="diagnostics/logs/OID/oid1/oidmon-0000.log" componentId="OID">
  <logreader class="oracle.core.ojdl.reader.ODLTextLogReaderFactory">
   <property name="FilenameFormat" value="oidmon-{0}.log"/>
   <property name="FileRotation" value="circular"/>
   <property name="ComponentId" value="OID"/>
  </logreader>
</log>
<log path="diagnostics/logs/OID/oid1/oidrepld00-0000.log" componentId="OID">
  <logreader class="oracle.core.ojdl.reader.ODLTextLogReaderFactory">
   <property name="FilenameFormat" value="oidrepld00-{0}.log"/>
   <property name="FileRotation" value="circular"/>
   <property name="ComponentId" value="OID"/>
  </logreader>
</log>
</logs>