Not able to start Enterprise Dashboard in vTier environment

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

When starting Enterprise Dashboard in Linux in vTier environment connecting to Derby , getting the below error.

 Apache Derby Network Server - 10.12.1.1 - (1704137) started and ready to accept connections on port 1530 Error creating bean with name 'transactionManager': Cannot resolve reference to bean 'sessionFactory' while setting bean property 'sessionFactory'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating a bean with name 'sessionFactory': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException

Environment

All supported DevTest releases.

Cause

Unsupported environment due to restrictions on ' localhost ' usage which is  a non-standard network settings

Resolution

• For each DevTest environments use supported OS and supported external DB. 
• Ensure that your firewall allows DevTest Solutions to send and receive network transmissions.