DB Connect Oracle Connection Null Pointer Exception

[madhav_dholakia]

Hello,

I am trying to create a connection to Oracle DB but on saving the connection, splunk_app_db_connect_server.log shows below error:

2020-08-31 09:20:34.764 +0100  [dw-56 - POST /api/connections/status] ERROR io.dropwizard.jersey.errors.LoggingExceptionMapper - Error handling a request: bd54ff303cdcc36b
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at com.splunk.dbx.connector.logger.AuditLogger.replace(AuditLogger.java:50)
	at com.splunk.dbx.connector.logger.AuditLogger.error(AuditLogger.java:44)
	at com.splunk.dbx.server.api.service.database.impl.DatabaseMetadataServiceImpl.getStatus(DatabaseMetadataServiceImpl.java:159)
	at com.splunk.dbx.server.api.service.database.impl.DatabaseMetadataServiceImpl.getConnectionStatus(DatabaseMetadataServiceImpl.java:116)
	at com.splunk.dbx.server.api.resource.ConnectionResource.getConnectionStatusOfEntity(ConnectionResource.java:72)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.lambda$static$0(ResourceMethodInvocationHandlerFactory.java:52)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher$1.run(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:124)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.invoke(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:167)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider$TypeOutInvoker.doDispatch(JavaResourceMethodDispatcherProvider.java:219)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.internal.AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.dispatch(AbstractJavaResourceMethodDispatcher.java:79)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.invoke(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:469)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:391)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.model.ResourceMethodInvoker.apply(ResourceMethodInvoker.java:80)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime$1.run(ServerRuntime.java:253)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:248)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors$1.call(Errors.java:244)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:292)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:274)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.internal.Errors.process(Errors.java:244)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.process.internal.RequestScope.runInScope(RequestScope.java:265)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ServerRuntime.process(ServerRuntime.java:232)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.server.ApplicationHandler.handle(ApplicationHandler.java:680)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.serviceImpl(WebComponent.java:392)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.WebComponent.service(WebComponent.java:346)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:365)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:318)
	at org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer.service(ServletContainer.java:205)
	at io.dropwizard.jetty.NonblockingServletHolder.handle(NonblockingServletHolder.java:50)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1617)
	at io.dropwizard.servlets.ThreadNameFilter.doFilter(ThreadNameFilter.java:35)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1604)
	at io.dropwizard.jersey.filter.AllowedMethodsFilter.handle(AllowedMethodsFilter.java:47)
	at io.dropwizard.jersey.filter.AllowedMethodsFilter.doFilter(AllowedMethodsFilter.java:41)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1604)
	at com.splunk.dbx.server.api.filter.ResponseHeaderFilter.doFilter(ResponseHeaderFilter.java:30)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1604)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:545)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:233)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1297)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:188)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:485)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:186)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1212)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127)
	at com.codahale.metrics.jetty9.InstrumentedHandler.handle(InstrumentedHandler.java:249)
	at io.dropwizard.jetty.RoutingHandler.handle(RoutingHandler.java:52)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.gzip.GzipHandler.handle(GzipHandler.java:717)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.RequestLogHandler.handle(RequestLogHandler.java:54)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.StatisticsHandler.handle(StatisticsHandler.java:173)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:500)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.lambda$handle$1(HttpChannel.java:383)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:547)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:375)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:270)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:311)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:103)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:117)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:336)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:313)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:171)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:129)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:388)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:806)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:938)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

 Splunk 8.0.5

DB Connect 3.3.1

Can someone please suggest how to resolve this? Thank you.

[thambisetty]

Did you install java on windows HF?

Did you install oracle-jdbc driver?

[madhav_dholakia]

Hi @thambisetty , yes Java and JDBC Driver - both are installed. Thank you.

[thambisetty]

do you any other oracle connections working?

what about authentication for the connection you are trying to create? is is oracle local authentication or domain account?

[madhav_dholakia]

ok so this connection worked for a few mins last week, not sure but it has stopped working from this morning. The entity I have created here, I can connect to Oracle Instance through sqlplus using the same credentials.

[thambisetty]

you are getting null pointer exception because when you are trying to save the connection db connect will validate the connection and it's getting nothing back from sql server.

It could be because of authentication or some other issue. 

can you confirm, if you are using local sql credentials or domain credentials?

[madhav_dholakia]

i am using local sql credentials.

Thank you.