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Java agent fails to start with Pro trial licenes

CommunityUser
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi Team,

I'm getting the below error for java agent with AppDynamics.(Agent JAR loaded but agent failed to initialize)

java -Xbootclasspath/a:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.181-3.b13.el6_10.x86_64/lib/tools.jar -jar /opt/appagent/javaagent.jar 2011
Attaching to VM [2011]
agent path >>>/opt/appagent/javaagent.jar
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
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 com.singularity.ee.agent.appagent.AgentEntryPoint.main(AgentEntryPoint.java:1076)
Caused by: com.sun.tools.attach.AgentInitializationException: Agent JAR loaded but agent failed to initialize
at sun.tools.attach.HotSpotVirtualMachine.loadAgent(HotSpotVirtualMachine.java:121)
... 5 more
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at com.singularity.ee.agent.appagent.AgentEntryPoint.main(AgentEntryPoint.java:1080)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
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 com.singularity.ee.agent.appagent.AgentEntryPoint.main(AgentEntryPoint.java:1076)
Caused by: com.sun.tools.attach.AgentInitializationException: Agent JAR loaded but agent failed to initialize
at sun.tools.attach.HotSpotVirtualMachine.loadAgent(HotSpotVirtualMachine.java:121)

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iamryan
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi @Nitesh.Kewat,

You are a partner and should be on a paid account, not a trial license. Can you confirm if this is true or not?

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CommunityUser
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi Prashant.Mhatre

the agent will need a few configuration parameters, especially connection details, to initialize properly.

https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Install+the+Java+Agent#InstalltheJavaAgent-AttachingtheJa...

Are these set ?

Thanks

Philipp

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Nitesh_Kewat
New Member

We have done the all configuration agent is up but after Dr drill activity agent is not starting facing above issue agent jar loaded but fail to intialize

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Arjen_van_der_K
New Member

Did you by any chance found a solution to this? Thanks! 

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