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DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

tyronegreen — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 07:12:02 GMT

Hello Everyone, I'm running Splunk Enterprise 6.2 and have the DB Connect app configured to communicate with a local Oracle Database. The connection appears to be established but when I attempt to run a query I get an error:

Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

The Java Bridge server is running ... I can run similar queries using SQL Developer and they return very quickly and with only a few rows. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here ? The user I have configured definitely has the correct privileges. Any suggestions would be appreciated, Thank you

Thank you

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

tyronegreen — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 02:38:27 GMT

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can resolve this ? Thanks

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

linu1988 — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 04:22:15 GMT

whats the query? or is it the dbinfo view throwing error?

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

linu1988 — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 04:22:56 GMT

whats the query? or is it the dbinfo view throwing error?

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

tyronegreen — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:31:19 GMT

Here is the dbx.log information in debug mode ... The query is a simple select * from table.

2014-12-30 20:28:23.158 main:DEBUG:BridgeSession - Initialized BridgeSession for Socket Socket[addr=/127.0.0.1,port=35836,localport=17865]
2014-12-30 20:28:23.159 :DEBUG:BridgeSession - Starting BridgeSession...
2014-12-30 20:28:23.159 :DEBUG:LRUCache - Cache hit for key com.splunk.dbx.command.DatabaseQueryCommand (no need to handleResult producer)
2014-12-30 20:28:23.160 dbx9474:DEBUG:ExecutionContext - Initializing execution context with app.ctx=dbx and execId=dbx9474
2014-12-30 20:28:23.160 dbx9474:INFO:BridgeSession - Executing Bridge command: BridgeExecutionInfo{className=com.splunk.dbx.command.DatabaseQueryCommand}
2014-12-30 20:28:23.161 dbx9474:DEBUG:BridgeSession - Bridge commands arguments: [EXECUTE, scdb, limit=1000, "select * from aps_v_storage_array;"]
2014-12-30 20:28:23.162 dbx9474:INFO:DatabaseQueryCommand - action=executing SQL query="select * from aps_v_storage_array;" on database=scdb
2014-12-30 20:28:23.162 dbx9474:DEBUG:DatabaseQueryCommand - infoPath not in command headers... reading it from job sid=null directly...
2014-12-30 20:28:23.162 dbx9474:WARN:DatabaseQueryCommand - SearchResultsInfo file null doesn't exist
2014-12-30 20:28:23.163 dbx9474:DEBUG:DatabaseQueryCommand - srInfo: null
2014-12-30 20:28:23.163 dbx9474:DEBUG:Database - Fetching connection from factory...
2014-12-30 20:28:23.163 dbx9474:DEBUG:PooledConnectionFactory - Fetching connection from pool...
2014-12-30 20:28:23.163 dbx9474:DEBUG:PooledConnectionFactory - Activating database connection oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection@221c6a1f for database=scdb
2014-12-30 20:28:23.164 dbx9474:DEBUG:PooledConnectionFactory - Validating database connection for database=scdb
2014-12-30 20:28:23.164 dbx9474:DEBUG:Database - Validating database connection...
2014-12-30 20:28:23.165 dbx9474:DEBUG:Database - Executing test query: SELECT 1 FROM DUAL
2014-12-30 20:28:23.167 dbx9474:DEBUG:Database - Database validation successful
2014-12-30 20:28:23.182 dbx9474:ERROR:DatabaseQueryCommand - SQL exception occurred: ORA-00911: invalid character

java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00911: invalid character

    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:447)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:396)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:951)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:513)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:227)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:531)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.doOall8(T4CStatement.java:195)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.executeForDescribe(T4CStatement.java:876)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.executeMaybeDescribe(OracleStatement.java:1175)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1296)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.executeInternal(OracleStatement.java:1916)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.execute(OracleStatement.java:1878)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatementWrapper.execute(OracleStatementWrapper.java:318)
    at com.splunk.dbx.sql.Database.execute(Database.java:238)
    at com.splunk.dbx.command.DatabaseQueryCommand.executeCommand(DatabaseQueryCommand.java:83)
    at com.splunk.runtime.SplunkCommand.invoke(SplunkCommand.java:237)
    at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.call(BridgeSession.java:92)
    at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.call(BridgeSession.java:30)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

2014-12-30 20:28:23.184 dbx9474:ERROR:DatabaseQueryCommand - Error while executing command: A database error occurred: ORA-00911: invalid character

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

tyronegreen — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 04:53:47 GMT

DB Info also throws an exception in the log:

2014-12-30 20:51:20.782 dbx6647:DEBUG:PooledConnectionFactory - Validating database connection for database=scdb
2014-12-30 20:51:20.783 dbx6647:DEBUG:Database - Validating database connection...
2014-12-30 20:51:20.783 dbx6647:DEBUG:Database - Executing test query: SELECT 1 FROM DUAL
2014-12-30 20:51:20.784 dbx6647:DEBUG:Database - Database validation successful
2014-12-30 20:51:22.276 dbx6647:ERROR:BridgeSession - Exception occured while executing command: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:109)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:141)
at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.sendReturncode(BridgeSession.java:51)
at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.call(BridgeSession.java:104)
at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.call(BridgeSession.java:30)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
2014-12-30 20:51:22.280 dbx6647:ERROR:BridgeSession - Exception occurred while executing command: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:109)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:141)
at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.sendReturncode(BridgeSession.java:51)
at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.call(BridgeSession.java:116)
at com.splunk.bridge.session.BridgeSession.call(BridgeSession.java:30)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)
2014-12-30 20:51:22.280 dbx6647:DEBUG:BridgeSession - Shutting down socket IO...
2014-12-30 20:51:22.281 dbx6647:DEBUG:ExecutionContext - Destroying execution context...
2014-12-30 20:51:22.281 dbx6647:DEBUG:Database - Database performShutdown...
2014-12-30 20:51:22.281 dbx6647:DEBUG:PooledConnectionFactory - Release database connection of database=scdb
2014-12-30 20:51:22.282 dbx6647:DEBUG:PooledConnectionFactory - Passivating database connection for database=scdb
2014-12-30 20:51:22.282 dbx6647:INFO:ExecutionContext - Execution finished in duration=1503 ms

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

Lucas_K — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 22:20:21 GMT

Getting the same error here. Did you ever resolve this?

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

Federica_92 — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:13:12 GMT

Hi, how have you solve this problem?

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

Federica_92 — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:14:41 GMT

Any lucky?

Re: DB Connect: Error in 'script': Getinfo probe failed for external search command 'dbquery'

amiracle — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:33:22 GMT

I found this on another post which might help with your issue : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DBX/2.0.3/DeployDBX/Commands#For_upgraders

The post is from this answer : http://answers.splunk.com/answers/242788/error-in-script-getinfo-probe-failed-for-external.html

I hope this helps with your issue.