domain1 error when starting Appdynamics

[jahinnipa]

I am running into an error when installing Appdynamics. I'm installing Appdynamics on an ec2 instance that I provisioned (let's say with IP 10.1.0.200). I'm using ansible to install appdynamics inside the ec2; however, I run into an error in one of the tasks so I try to manually install appdynamics inside the ec2 instance. 

The error seems to occur when when my controller.sh tries to write to the response.varfile. When I run the following command:

$ sudo ./controller-appdynamics-4.2.13.1-linux.x86_64.sh –q –varfile

I get this error:

Following values are not specified: mysqlRootUserPassword, rootUserPassword, password. Please add them in the response.varfile and retry the installation.

I check my response.varfile and I see that a mysqlRootUserPassword, rootUserPassword, and password are all defined so I'm confused as to why I am getting this error in the first place.

Anyways, I then try the install again except this time I don't do a silent install:

$ sudo ./controller-appdynamics-4.2.13.1-linux.x86_64.sh –varfile

Everything seems to be working fine until I get the following timeout error:

/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
/usr/local/AppDynamics/Controller/checkAS.sh
Failed to start the Controller in the timeout period of 45 minutes.
If you are able to start the Controller manually, try re-installing the Controller after increasing the timeout.
If unable to start the Controller, contact AppDynamics support for assistance.

I check startAS.log and find this:

Waiting for domain1 to start .Command start-domain failed.

My etc/hosts/ has the following domains (purposely hidden):

172.20.0.##1 host.1
172.20.0.##2 host.2
172.20.0.##3 host.3
172.20.0.##4 host.4

I'm not sure why my installation isn't working but I'm guessing it has something to do with the IP not being associated with a hostname. Not sure, but any help with this will be much appreciated!

[gurmit.arora]

Hi Jahinippa,

Couple of things here

- Is the IP / hostname provided during the install (in your case in response.var file) same as the ec2 instance dns name or IP?

- I would also check if there is anything else running on the ec2 instance on the default http port that appdynamics uses (port 8090), netstat command is your friend here.

- I would just clean up everything and do a fresh install with user input, i.e.

sudo ./controller-appdynamics-4.2.13.1-linux.x86_64.sh

Thanks

Gurmit.

[asha.ramegowda]

Hi Jahinnipa,

Yes, the issue could as well be with not having full qualified host names configured.

Please refer the section "Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure notes" in the following documentation:

Install the Controller - Version 4.2.x

Please share the following logs so that we can identify the root cause of this issue controller not starting.

Please run the following command.

<ControllerHome>/bin/controller.sh zip-logs

This would create a zip file called logs.zip. Please upload the attachment here.

Regarding the installation issues, please share the files in the folder:

<ControllerHome>/.install4j/* 

Please note the above folder is a hidden folder starting with a "."

Thanks,

Asha.