Mainframe Wekhook Server failed to start

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

Deployed Mainframe Wekhook Server 2.7 on Tomcat and was able to access the interface and made some configurations ( add webhooks, etc. ).

WebHook server failed to initialize after restart: 
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class com.ca.mf.webhook.watchdog.listeners.InitializeTh
 readPool
 java.lang.NullPointerException
  at com.ca.mf.webhook.watchdog.runnables.WebhookController.lambda$consumeEvents$2(WebhookController.java:734)
  at com.ca.mf.webhook.watchdog.runnables.WebhookController$$Lambda$13/000000001CDF1C10.compare(Unknown Source)
  at java.util.TreeMap.compare(TreeMap.java:1306)
  at java.util.TreeMap.put(TreeMap.java:549)
  at java.util.TreeSet.add(TreeSet.java:266)
...

Environment

Release : 18.0

Component : CA Endevor Software Change Manager

Mainframe WebHook Server 2.7

Resolution

This error is caused by non-event files in the watch directory. 

Solution: Redeploy new webhook server 2.8