AIX Agent fails to start:

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

The AIX agent v24.x fails to start with the error message below.

 

From the session:

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JVMDUMP039I Processing dump event "abort", detail "" at 2025/05/07 01:07:10 - please wait.
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested System dump using '/datas/Agents/unix/bin/core.20250507.010710.11862328.0001.dmp' in response to an event
Note: "Enable full CORE dump" in smit is set to FALSE and as a result there will be limited threading information in core file.
JVMDUMP010I System dump written to /datas/Agents/unix/bin/core.20250507.010710.11862328.0001.dmp
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Java dump using '/datas/Agents/unix/bin/javacore.20250507.010710.11862328.0002.txt' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Java dump written to /datas/Agents/unix/bin/javacore.20250507.010710.11862328.0002.txt
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Snap dump using '/datas/Agents/unix/bin/Snap.20250507.010710.11862328.0003.trc' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Snap dump written to /datas/Agents/unix/bin/Snap.20250507.010710.11862328.0003.trc
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested JIT dump using '/datas/Agents/unix/bin/jitdump.20250507.010710.11862328.0004.dmp' in response to an event
JVMDUMP051I JIT dump occurred in 'JIT Compilation Thread-001' thread 0x000000003000DC00
JVMDUMP049I JIT dump notified all waiting threads of the current method to be compiled
JVMDUMP054I JIT dump is tracing the IL of the method on the crashed compilation thread
JVMDUMP048I JIT dump method being compiled is an ordinary method
JVMDUMP053I JIT dump is recompiling java/lang/invoke/VarHandle.getMethodHandle(I)Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodHandle;
JVMDUMP010I JIT dump written to /datas/Agents/unix/bin/jitdump.20250507.010710.

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From the Agent's log:

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U00045015 The previous error was caused by 'java.net.ConnectException: "null"' at 'jdk.internal.net.http.common.Utils.toConnectException():1083'.
U00045015 The previous error was caused by 'java.nio.channels.UnresolvedAddressException: "null"' at 'sun.nio.ch.Net.checkAddress():149'.


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Environment

Product: CA Automic Workload Automation - Java AIX Agent 

Cause

The JCP of the Automation Engine is not reachable.

Resolution

Please check the following:

-If the JCP is started

-The JCP is reachable from the server where the agent is installed

telnet <AEServer> <JCP port>