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JBoss Operations Network 2.1

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Edition 1

JBoss Documentation

JBoss ON Team

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Abstract

Frequently Asked Questions for JBoss ON

1. Document Conventions

1.1. Typographic Conventions
1.2. Pull-quote Conventions
1.3. Notes and Warnings

2. We need feedback

1. Frequently Asked Questions

1.1. General

1.1.1. What is the difference between JON, RHQ and Jopr?
1.1.2. What documentation is available?
1.1.3. Is there a publicly available issue tracker system to search for bugs and submit enhancement requests?
1.1.4. Is XXX database supported?

1.2. User Interface

1.2.1. How can I ignore an autodiscovered resource?

1.3. Server

1.3.1. How do I get debug messages from the JON Server?
1.3.2. How does JON integrate with external LDAP user repositories?
1.3.3. How can I specify command-line options for the Server JVM
1.3.4. How can I confirm my server's email/SMTP setting are correct?
1.3.5. When do Baselines auto-calculate?
1.3.6. I deleted a Platform from inventory. How do I get it be rediscovered, so I can re-import it?
1.3.7. My server machine does not have a writable directory called /var/run. How can I get my rhq-server.sh script to successfully write out its pidfile?
1.3.8. When I try to start the server, I get an exception whose cause says "Exception creating identity" and the server fails to start. How can I fix this?

1.4.1. How do I get debug messages from the JON Agent?
1.4.2. How do I start the JON Agent fresh, as if newly installed?
1.4.3. My resources went "red" after starting the agent with -u / --purgedata or -l / --cleanconfig
1.4.4. How can I update the plugins on all my agents?
1.4.5. How can I change the agent name after it has already been registered?
1.4.6. I want to run agents on all my machines, but only one starts OK - the rest fail due to binding to a wrong address
1.4.7. When starting the Agent via a Windows service, the Agent fails to start, and I see the error "java.lang.IllegalStateException: The name of this agent is not defined - you cannot start the agent until you give it a valid name" in the Agent wrapper log file. What does this mean?
1.4.8. My Agent setup is correct but my Agent is getting "Cause: org.jboss.remoting.CannotConnectException: Can not connect http client invoker."
1.4.9. My agent machine does not have a writable directory called /var/run. How can I get my rhq-agent-wrapper.sh script to successfully write out its pidfile?

1.5. Log Messages

1.5.1. What are "Command failed to be authenticated" messages?
1.5.2. What are "fail-safe cleanup" messages?

1.6. Plugins

1.6.1. JBossAS Plugin
1.6.2. Postgres Plugin
1.6.3. Apache Plugin

1.7. Troubleshooting

1.7.1. Installer fails on PostgreSQL with "Relation RHQ_Principal does not exist"
1.7.2. JBoss ON 2.0 GA has trouble starting on Java 6
1.7.3. The execution of a Script-resource fails on Unix
1.7.4. Install fails on Oracle with ORA-01843
1.7.5. When trying to monitor a JBoss EAP 4.2/4.3 instance, I get the error "Connection failure Failed to authenticate principal=null, securityDomain=jmx-console"
1.7.6. Why does my Apache SNMP module fail to start with the error ...?
1.7.7. When monitoring a JBAS instance, I'm not seeing any JVM resources beneath it?

1.8. JON 1.x

1.8.1. What is new and different in JBoss ON 2.0 compared to the previous JBoss ON 1.x product?
1.8.2. Can I migrate my inventory or metric data to JON 2.0 from a previous version of JON?
1.8.3. How did the security functionality change from JON 1.x to JON 2.0?

A. Revision History

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