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Machine Agent Can't start "Invalid argument"

Junaid_Wahab
Engager

I am trying to enable machine agent in Solaris server. JAVA verison 11.0. Machine Agent version 20.9. 

I am getting following error. I checked JAVA path is correct. everything is according to the doc. But not able to start agent. any thoughts  

 
./machine-agent -d -p /opt/appdynamics/machineagent/pidfile
Using java executable at /opt/appdynamics/machineagent/jre/bin/java
#nohup: /opt/appdynamics/machineagent/jre/bin/java: Invalid argument
 
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Junaid_Wahab
Engager

Thanks for your help. Problem has been solved. The problem with some AppDynamics agent folder permission issues that's why not all the files were loaded. Now I have another problem with App Agent. creating new discussion. Thanks

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Junaid_Wahab
Engager

Thanks for your help. Problem has been solved. The problem with some AppDynamics agent folder permission issues that's why not all the files were loaded. Now I have another problem with App Agent. creating new discussion. Thanks

Okik_Setianto
Engager

Hi Bro,

Have you defined the account-name, access-key, application-name, tier-name, and node-name in the controller_info.xml? If yes, can you attach the machine-agent.log?

Morelz
Motivator

Hi there

Firstly did you use the correct Solaris machine Agent, X86 or SPARC?

Can you do the following

Run the following command and provide the output

java -version

Also try and start it manually the following way

navigate to the root <agent installation directory>

and run the following command

nohup java -jar ./machineagent.jar &

Check if the agent starts

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