RA agent - Java heap space issue when sending External Reports

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

When using the RA Agent to send External Reports using a CALL object that has the option Attach Reports with source External Files or All ticked, the agent crashes with a Java Heap space error:

RA Job Report:

20200525/121422.608 -           job finished C C 1294058677 147248393 JOBNAME true

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
                at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3332)
                at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.ensureCapacityInternal(AbstractStringBuilder.java:124)
                at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:649)
                at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:202)
                at com.uc4.util.QuotedPrintable.encode(QuotedPrintable.java:40)
                at com.uc4.ex.mail.MailClient.sendMail(MailClient.java:193)
                at com.uc4.ex.mail.MailRoutine$1.run(MailRoutine.java:110)
                at com.uc4.ex.ThreadPool$RunnableDecorator.run(ThreadPool.java:53)
                at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
                at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
                at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
                at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Service Manager log:

20200525/121445.079 - U00022012 Process 'UC4 <RA_Agent>' (ID '123065') ended.
20200525/121445.079 - U00022022 Process 'UC4 <RA_Agent>' ended, exit code='77'.

 

Environment

Release : v12.2 / v12.3

Component : RA Agent

Cause

If the External Reports are very large the Java Heap space get exhausted because SMTP_MAX_ATTACHMENT_SIZE is not implemented on RA Agents

Resolution

Workaround:

- Increase the Java Heap size

- Don't send the External Reports