JVMJ9TI064E Error while starting Introscope agent

Products

• CA Application Performance Management Agent (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• INTROSCOPE

Issue/Introduction

Client trying to start Introscope agent on their WebSphere application server 8.5 which is running on Linux. Getting an error message that prevents  starting the application.

JVMJ9VM133W The system core size hard ulimit is set to 0, system dumps may be truncated.
Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : 
JVMJ9TI064E Agent initialization function Agent_OnLoad failed for library instrument, return code -1
JVMJ9VM015W Initialization error for library j9jvmti29(-3): JVMJ9VM009E J9VMDllMain failed
JVMJ9VM133W The system core size hard ulimit is set to 0, system dumps may be truncated.
Error opening zip file or JAR manifest missing : 

Environment

All supported APM releases.

Cause

Extra space in JVM startup arguments 


 

Resolution

Removing the extra space in the JVM arguments after -javaagent.

Was 
genericJvmArguments="-javaagent: /opt/Apps/WebSphere/was8.5/AppServer/wily/Agent.jar -Dcom.wily.introscope.agentProfile=/opt/Apps/WebSphere/was8.5/AppServer/wily/core/config/IntroscopeAgent_cats.profile" executableJarFileName="" disableJIT="false">
 
Changed to 

genericJvmArguments="-javaagent:/opt/Apps/WebSphere/was8.5/AppServer/wily/Agent.jar -Dcom.wily.introscope.agentProfile=/opt/Apps/WebSphere/was8.5/AppServer/wily/core/config/IntroscopeAgent_cats.profile"