ADE probe failing after upgrade to 23.4 / 23.4.2 / CU2 - automated_deployment_engine fails - [doForever]

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

The ADE (automated_deployment_engine) probe is failing after upgrade to 23.4cu2:

automated_deployment_engine.log error below:

0032024 13:39:40,820 [main] FATAL AutomatedDeploymentEngineProbe - [doForever] : fatal error stack tracejava.lang.NullPointerExceptionat com.nimsoft.ADE.archive.ArchiveEntry.compareTo(ArchiveEntry.java:770)
at com.nimsoft.ADE.archive.ArchiveEntry.compareTo(ArchiveEntry.java:39)
at com.google.common.collect.NaturalOrdering.compare(NaturalOrdering.java:42)
at com.google.common.collect.NaturalOrdering.compare(NaturalOrdering.java:28)
at java.util.TreeMap.put(TreeMap.java:552)
at java.util.TreeSet.add(TreeSet.java:255)
at com.google.common.collect.AbstractMapBasedMultimap.put(AbstractMapBasedMultimap.java:198)
at com.google.common.collect.AbstractSetMultimap.put(AbstractSetMultimap.java:140)

Environment

• DX UIM Version 23.4 / 23.4.2  (CU2)
• Probe: ade 23.4

Cause

Code issue

Resolution

To resolve the issue:

1. download the package attached to the case (automated_deployment_engine 23.4.2T1) 

2. Deploy to primary hub where ade is

Additional Information

Alternatively, use latest GA version of ADE: 23.4.4 as of May 2025