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Troubleshooting - Cluster startup Failure

Recently i had this problem.. I setup a cluster with an instance. But was not able to start it up.

I got a series of java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused exceptions and the instance did not startup.

What did the wonder?

The /etc/hosts file had the following entries:

127.0.0.1 mymachine mymachine localhost

When i commented out this line in the hosts file and add a physical IP entry like

129.xxx.xxx.xx mymachine

and startup the instance, it goes through fine

Reason

MQ needs the hostname to map to the absolute IP and not 127.0.0.1.

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Posted at 01:33PM Oct 30, 2007 by Shalini Muthukrishnan in GlassFish
Tags: cluster glassfishv2

Build : GlassFish V2 b58c on Solaris

Namesake names of machines : Tiger.cat.com, Cactus.plant.com

Using the Command Line Interface of GlassFish, a cluster can be setup with ease across 2 machines. Heres how it can be done:

2. Unbundle GlassFish following the instructions and do a ant -f setup-cluster.xml to enable clustering support on the installation.

Do Step2 on both Tiger.cat.com and Cactus.plant.com

3. On Tiger.cat.com, do the following:

Under {GF_install}/bin, do "asadmin start-domain" which will start up the default domain "domain1".
Create a node-agent as using the command "asadmin create-node-agent --host localhost --port 4848 man-agent"
Create a cluster with the command "asadmin create-cluster --host localhost --port 4848 cat-cluster"
Create an instance with the command "asadmin create-instance --host localhost --port 4848 --nodeagent man-agent --cluster cat-cluster instance1"

Note that in all the above steps, 4848 is the admin port of the domain domain1.

Start the node-agent : "asadmin start-node-agent --syncinstances=true man-agent"

The "syncinstances" flag starts up the cluster and instance as well. Its default value is false.

4. On Cactus.plant.com, do the following:

Under {GF_install}/bin, execute "asadmin create-node-agent --host Tiger.cat.com --port 4848 animal-agent" to create a node-agent on this machine pointing to the DAS (Tiger.cat.com).

After this step, observe in the /nodeagents directory that animal-agent is created.

Create an instance on this machine as "asadmin create-instance --host Tiger.cat.com --port 4848 --nodeagent animal-agent --cluster cat-cluster instance2"
Start node-agent, while the other node-agent is running: "asadmin start-node-agent --syncinstances=true animal-agent"

2 machine cluster is successfully setup !!!

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