Essbase registration to Shared Services failed - Hyp 11.1.1.3 on 2 Win XP

Question

Hi All,
I have Hyperion 11.1.1.3 installation on two XP Pro machines. Pure system, with no global policies, firewalls, etc. My users are in Administrators group. Computers are not in any domain also.
On first server (called HypTSerwer1) there is: Foundation (Shared Services Web Application and OpenLDAP Service)
On second server (called HypTSerwer3) there are: Oracle DB (10R2) + Essbase Services Server 32-bit
I've configured Shared Services, I can log as admin to Shared Services Console without any problem. Validation report contains all greens.
But when I try to configure HypTSerwer3 (essbase) I get: Register with Shared Services Failed. Validation report contains one failure in Hyperion Foundation (
EXT: External Authentication Check Native Directory external authentication provider configuration
Error: Provider is not reachable
Recommended Action: Check Shared Services Configuration
)(OpenLDAP is green and runs fine)
In HypTSerwer3 in C:\Hyperion\logs\config\SharedServices_Security_Client.txt I found:
Got hub location from Registry:http://HypTSerwer1:28080 com.hyperion.css.registry.RegistryManager.getHubLocationFromRegistry(Unknown Source)
Got native directory location from Registry::28089 com.hyperion.css.registry.RegistryManager.getNativeProviderLocationFromRegistry(Unknown Source)
URL constructed out of values in Registry database:ldap://:28089/dc=css,dc=hyperion,dc=com com.hyperion.css.common.configuration.CSSConfigurationImplXML.initConfiguration(Unknown Source)
27:1112:Failed to connect to at 28089.[Root Cause: Connection refused: connect ] com.hyperion.css.spi.util.jndi.pool.JNDIConnectionPool.validateSocketConnection(Unknown Source)
27:1112:Failed to connect to at 28089.[Root Cause: Connection refused: connect ] com.hyperion.css.spi.util.jndi.pool.JNDIConnectionPool.validateSocketConnection(Unknown Source)
Failed to instantiate provider for factory: com.hyperion.css.spi.impl.nv.NativeFactory. [Root Cause: 27:1112:Failed to connect to  at 28089. ] com.hyperion.css.spi.CSSManager.getProvider(Unknown Source)
Native Directory is not reachable. Attempting to re-connect... com.hyperion.css.spi.CSSManager.getProviderInstance(Unknown Source)
The part connect to  at 28089* looks strange for me, as it sugests, that there is no server name, only port.
I really don't know what to do next. I reinstalled it many times, checked if all services are running. Deployed it with Tomcat or WebLogic 9.2. And always with the same result. When I install everything in only one machine, than it is working fine.
Thanks for any help or suggestion.

Answer 1

Just out of interest why have you used OAS as it is pretty much dead product now and is not used in future releases.
Anyway I am not sure why you have closed ports between those servers, you will end up spending a lot of time trying to open all the required ports between the servers.
Can you not get all the ports open for a time just to check it definitely is a ports issue.
It is probably also worth checking the following spreadsheet out - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/epm-components-communications-fd-11-128629.xls
It highlights the ports used in communication.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/