Problems running adminclient remotely

[jeff mutonho]

We installed was 4.04 on a Redhat 8.0 box, we're using as a testbox.Trying to run adminclient on that box , remotely by doing
adminclient <testbox name>
from a any other machine on our network(Window and Linux boxes) , gives an error maessage saying
A communication error occured.
Caught exception while getting initial context:javax.namimg.CommunicationException:Caught CORBA.COMM_FAILURE when resolving initial reference=WsnNameService [Root exception is org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE: minor code: 3 completed: No]
Check misspelled hostname or hostname case for admin server
Well , we have checked the hostname , and even used its ip address as the argument to the adminclient command , but still get the same error message.We can ping the box though?
We have also tried
adminclient <ip address of testbox> 900 , but still get the same error.Port 900 is open , because doing a
telnet <ip address of testbox> 900 , establishes a connection.
What are we missing?
jeff mutonho

[Nagendra Prasad]

Jeff,
Sorry.. back with a question from this forum now..
Are you using WorkLoadManagement by any chance...
also ..
could you please post the first 3 lines from your admin.config
file from the application server ( the RH8 box).
Chances are that you have specified a value for the following
parameter:
com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminServer.nodeName
Check that this is spelt correctly, case sensitivity, if it is a name then check that the hosts file has an entry resolving it to the correct IP.
[ August 29, 2003: Message edited by: Nagendra Prasad ]

[jeff mutonho]

Hi Nagendra
>Are you using WorkLoadManagement by any chance...
How would I tell this?

Here are the first 3 lines from the admin.config file
com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminServer.earFile=/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/config/admin.ear
com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminserver.classpath=/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/properties:/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/lib/bootstrap.jar
com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminServer.traceFile=/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs/tracefile
>Chances are that you have specified a value for the following
>parameter: com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminServer.nodeName
I searched in the whole admin.config file but didnt find thatr parameter.
We have another linux box , running RH7.2 and we can run the adminclient on that box remotely with no problems.The admin.config file for that box also does not specify the
com.ibm.ejs.sm.adminServer.nodeName parameter.
Thanx

[Nagendra Prasad]

Work Load management is when u have a clustered environment of WebSphere servers. It looks like it is not the case.
If servers are clustered, one server needs to to tell the other member something about their identitity. Each of the nodes in the cluster would have identify themselves.. and this is done by the parameter that I mentioned.
But that is off the topic we have here which is an error with
'Check misspelled hostname or hostname case for admin server'
That indicates that your adminclient is not able to talk to the server.
Does this error happen on the client machine or do you seen this error on
the server?
Does the admin server trace file say anything more?
this would be in APPSERVER_ROOT/logs directory on the Linux box.
Check if the admin server had started successfully...

the log file would look something like this:

 
[12/08/03 13:48:23:862 BST] 73cc36d5 Server        U Version : 4.0.4
[12/08/03 13:48:24:347 BST] 73cc36d5 Server        U Edition: Advanced Edition f
or Multiplatforms
[12/08/03 13:48:25:860 BST] 73cc36d5 Server        U Build date: Fri Aug 02 00:0
0:00 BST 2002
[12/08/03 13:48:25:860 BST] 73cc36d5 Server        U Build number: ptf40230.02
[12/08/03 13:48:28:052 BST] 73cc36d5 ORBRas        W com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.Util Uti
l P=506161 :-o	 =0:CT JORB0012: Pass by reference has been set to:  true (NoLocalCop
ies = true)
[12/08/03 13:48:43:057 BST] 73cc36d5 DrAdminServer I WSVR0053I: DrAdmin availabl
e on port 32844
[12/08/03 13:48:43:087 BST] 73cc36d5 AdminServer   I ADMS0008I: Initializing Web
Sphere Administration server
[12/08/03 13:48:56:720 BST] 73cc36d5 ResourceBinde I WSVR0049I: Binding SM_DATAS
OURCE as jdbc/SM_Datasource
[12/08/03 13:49:03:418 BST] 73cc36d5 EJBEngine     I WSVR0037I: Starting EJB jar
: Name Service
[12/08/03 13:49:38:552 BST] 73cc36d5 EJBEngine     I WSVR0037I: Starting EJB jar
: Secure CosNaming
[12/08/03 13:49:48:009 BST] 73cc36d5 EJBEngine     I WSVR0037I: Starting EJB jar
: Repository
[12/08/03 13:50:28:873 BST] 73cc36d5 EJBEngine     I WSVR0037I: Starting EJB jar
: Tasks
[12/08/03 13:50:39:301 BST] 73cc36d5 Server        A WSVR0023I: Server __adminSe
rver open for e-business
 

I shall be checking this post often.. so please do let me know.

[jeff mutonho]

Thanx
Yes the admin server starts successfully and it does say it's ready for e-business .
I can run adminclient locally on the RH8 box , just not remotely(i.e from my windows machine).
We have another test box running RH7.2 and on it , I can run the adminclient remotely(from my Windows machine) , without any problem.The problem seems to be just specific to the RH8 box

I checked this file
/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/logs
and it's empty\