dSeries did not restart and errors.txt showed Port already in use: 7599; nested exception is: java.net.BindException

Products

• ESP dSeries Workload Automation
• ESP dSeries Workload Automation - Business Agents (dSeries)
• ESP dSeries Workload Automation - Scheduler (dSeries)
• ESP dSeries Workload Automation - System Agent (dSeries)

Issue/Introduction

DE service was stopped and then later started again as different user (non-root).  The service did not start and had the following errors in errors.txt:

 

2026xxxx 00:00:03.287 [essential] [ERROR] main: [2026-xx-xx_00:00:03.287] Server terminated with an error code of 3.   The exception is java.rmi.server.ExportException: 
Port already in use: 7599; nested exception is: java.net.BindException: Address already in use (Bind failed).
java.rmi.server.ExportException: Port already in use: 7599; nested exception is: 
java.net.BindException: Address already in use (Bind failed)

 

Environment

ESP dSeries Workload Automation: Any

OS: Linux / AIX

Cause

The DE / dSeries service is not able to bind to port due to permissions.

Resolution

Check to make sure that all the directories inside dSeries is owned by same user.  Always start as the user that owns the files or as root or use chown to change permissions accordingly.  

Check if another process is not using the same ports as dSeries (7500, 7507, 7599, 7598).  If dSeries version is 12.4 or above make sure port 8080 is also available and not used by another process.