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EM 13c: Numerous Incidents: java.lang.NullPointerException:oracle.sysman.gcagent.state.StateMgr:1096 are Generated for the Agents Monitoring HAS targets (Doc ID 2226172.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager for Oracle Database - Version 13.2.1.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Numerous incidents are generated for the EM 13.2 Agents, monitoring HAS targets, with this error message:

java.lang.NullPointerException:oracle.sysman.gcagent.state.StateMgr:1096

From <agent base directory>/agent_inst/sysman/log/emagent.nohup file

Nov 03, 2016 11:08:14 AM oracle.sysman.diag.EMDiagImpl createIncident.648
INFO: incident 565 created with problem key java.lang.NullPointerException:oracle.sysman.gcagent.state.StateMgr:1096, in directory <Agent_Inst_Home>/diag/ofm/emagent/emagent/incident/incdir_565
Nov 03, 2016 11:38:13 AM oracle.sysman.diag.EMDiagImpl captureDiagData.478
SEVERE: Critical error: <no message>
java.lang.NullPointerException


The incident <Agent_Inst_Home>/diag/ofm/emagent/emagent/incident/incdir_<ID>/readme.txt file has this typical error stack:

Incident Id: 1
Incident Source: SYSTEM
Create Time: <timestamp>
Problem Key: java.lang.NullPointerException:oracle.sysman.gcagent.state.StateMgr:1096
ECID: b3b689a8-8c4c-ac97-1ce116a3.0
Thread Id: 28
Error Message Id: OFM-99999

Context Values
--------------
TARGET_ID : has.<has target name>
threadName : GC.Executor.2503 (has:<has target name>:CRSAlert11gR2_dup)
METRIC_NAME : clusterware_alerts

Stack Trace
-----------
java.lang.NullPointerException
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.state.StateMgr.upsertStateEntry(StateMgr.java:1096)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.state.StateMgr.upsertStateEntry(StateMgr.java:1063)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.target.interaction.execution.ExecuteTask.updateLastEvalTS(ExecuteTask.java:2770)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.target.interaction.execution.ExecuteTask.processMultipleResultSetForTimestamp(ExecuteTask.java:3742)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.target.interaction.execution.ExecuteTask.processMultipleResultSet(ExecuteTask.java:3669)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.target.interaction.execution.ExecuteTask.runTask(ExecuteTask.java:3287)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.target.interaction.execution.ExecuteTask.call(ExecuteTask.java:4249)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.metadata.impl.collection.MetricColl$1.call(MetricColl.java:552)
.............

From <agent base directory>/agent_inst/sysman/log/gcagent.log:

2016-11-03 11:08:13,775 [26283:GC.Executor.163 (has:<has target name>:CRSAlert11gR2_dup)] DEBUG - Executing cleanup action End session [145782] for task has:has_<has target name>:CRSAlert11gR2_dup
2016-11-03 11:08:13,775 [28:IncCreHandler] DEBUG - Adding diag fact [INVOKER_STACK] to thread 28: java.lang.Exception: Critical error
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.tmmain.diag.DiagManager.handleException(DiagManager.java:1019)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.tmmain.diag.DiagManager.handleException(DiagManager.java:935)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.tmmain.diag.DiagManager.handleException(DiagManager.java:707)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.task.TaskFutureImpl$WrappedTask.call(TaskFutureImpl.java:736)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)

 The incidents are mainly generated when the "Oracle High Availability Service Alert Log Error" metric is executed for the HAS target.

Changes

Upgraded to 13.2 Cloud Control.

Cause

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