DEVTEST VSE service will not stay up running and throws the ERROR: we are not a model archive or are corrupt.

Products

• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

VSE service will not stay up and running on a VSE server.

Tried these steps still VSE service will not stay running.

1. deleted lisatmp10.8.3.1
2. delete files in vsBuilderSessions Folder
3. delete files in vsRecording folder

 ERROR com.itko.lisa.coordinator.VirtualServiceEnvironmentImpl - Unexpected exception during startup.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Our audit file is either missing or we are not a model archive or are corrupt.

at com.itko.lisa.model.mar.ModelArchive.init(ModelArchive.java:268) ~[lisa-core-10.8.3.1.jar:?]

at com.itko.lisa.model.mar.ModelArchive.<init>(ModelArchive.java:240) ~[lisa-core-10.8.3.1.jar:?]

at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.VirtualServiceCatalog.handleOfflineDeltas(VirtualServiceCatalog.java:479) ~[lisa-virtualize-10.8.3.1.jar:?]

at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.VirtualServiceCatalog.<init>(VirtualServiceCatalog.java:114) ~[lisa-virtualize-10.8.3.1.jar:?]

at com.itko.lisa.coordinator.VirtualServiceCatalog.<init>(VirtualServiceCatalog.java:91) ~[lisa-virtualize-10.8.3.1.jar:?]

 

Environment

DevTest 10.8.x or newer

Cause

Corrupted Mar file  in the DevTest/vseDeploy folder. 

Resolution

Vse logs will show the names of the corrupted mar file along with the Error message.

for example: 

INFO  com.itko.lisa.test.TestCase    - Name: BankCPR Version: 5 created with LISA 10.7.2 (10.7.2.sp2)
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Our audit file is either missing or we are not a model archive or are corrupt.

Delete the corrupted BankCPR.mar from DevTest/vseDeploy/VSE_2013 folder