Grid Control?

Hi Don,

 

 

Can you tell us which exceptions it's throwing? The first thing that springs to mind is Java version incompatibilities, and that can be ruled out pretty easily if we see the version numbers.

 

 

Posting a stack trace is best, if you have one from one of the exceptions.

 

 

Thanks!

 

Don.

Ok, I'm a network geek, so this whole thing is outside of my normal knowledge, I'm going to paste the error I was sent by the guy who runs grid control. Hopefully this is what you need.

 

 

Failed to contact the target to be added. Following errors were received while testing the connection to the target. Update the properties accordingly, try Test Connection for testing the properties before saving.

 

 

Switch - em_error = ; nested exception is: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException Nov 16, 2007 11:25:56 AM org.apache.axis.client.Call invoke SEVERE: Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.SimpleDeserializer.onEndElement(SimpleDeserializer.java:176) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializerImpl.endElement(DeserializerImpl.java:502) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087) at org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.java:171) at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:1140) at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.deserialize(RPCElement.java:345) at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.getParams(RPCElement.java:384) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2448) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2347) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1804) at iControl.SystemStatisticsBindingStub.get_global_statistics(SystemStatisticsBindingStub.java:607) at oracle.sysman.mpi.f5.bigip.SystemSwitch.getSystemSwitchInfo(SystemSwitch.java:50) at oracle.sysman.mpi.f5.bigip.SystemSwitch.acceptRequest(SystemSwitch.java:37) at oracle.sysman.mpi.f5.bigip.MetricCollection.acceptRequest(MetricCollection.java:93) at oracle.sysman.mpi.f5.bigip.MetricCollector.main(MetricCollector.java:149)

 

 

Thanks again for your time!

 

Don

Ok so I started looking at the Grid Control documentation and I found a blurb that said: " Be sure the BigIP is configured to accept iControl web services." I know it's a "no-no" but we are using the admin account for Grid Control to log in. Are we missing a config somewhere?

 

 

You guys are going to make me become a damn (no offense) programmer after all aren't you...I've been dodging this for years ;-)

 

 

Don

bump

I don't have a way to test the Oracle Grid Control plugin. I'll ask around and see what I can come up with.

 

 

From an iControl perspective, the only possible issue I could see is if the get_global_statistics() method in the newer version of the BIG-IP introduced a new statistics type introduced in a newer version of the SDK and the grid control plugin didn't have a proxy handler for that type, then it could cause an runtime translation error from SOAP to native types. I'll look at the sources between the two versions of your BIG-IPs and see if a new global stat type was added. If so, we'll need to get an updated version of the grid control plugin built. This is all guessing though, so it could be some other issue completely.

 

 

-Joe

We're getting the same error and I'd like to see if there was ever resolved. We are using a guest account for grid control, and 9.4.3. BigIP. Any tips? Thanks!

No real solution although we came up with a work around. We gather the snmp data with a script on a linux box and then let grid control analyze the data we collect. Had to do the same for our firewall. Meanwhile I'm looking at Solarwinds Orion network monitoring and application monitoring solution. Good luck!

Hi,

 

Has this issue been resolved? I am getting the same error when I am trying to BigIp Local Traffic Manager to Grid Control.

 

Please tell us the solution or work around.

 

 

Thanks

 

Kotesh

Has this issue been resolved? I just installed the BIG-IP Traffic Manager and got the following error. I can successfully log into the target server from the OEM Grid Unix server.

 

Text of the error given is as follows:

 

Failed to contact the target to be added. Following errors were received while testing the connection to the target. Update the properties accordingly, try Test Connection for testing the properties before saving.

 

Switch - em_error = ; nested exception is: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused