EPM System Managed Servers Fail To Start with UnknownHostException Error (Doc ID 2593931.1)

Last updated on JULY 26, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

EPM System Managed Servers Fail To Start with the following errors in the log file:

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<BEA-090082> <Security initializing using security realm myrealm.>
 <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: java.lang.AssertionError: java.net.UnknownHostException: serverA
java.lang.AssertionError: java.net.UnknownHostException: serverA
    at weblogic.cluster.messaging.internal.server.ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl.createConfiguration(ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl.java:106)
    at weblogic.cluster.messaging.internal.server.ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl.<init>(ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl.java:55)
    at weblogic.cluster.messaging.internal.server.ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl.<init>(ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl.java:28)
    at weblogic.cluster.messaging.internal.server.ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl$Factory.<clinit>(ConfiguredServersMonitorImpl.java:39)
    at weblogic.cluster.messaging.internal.server.UnicastFragmentSocket.<init>(UnicastFragmentSocket.java:47)
    Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: java.net.UnknownHostException: serverA
    at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Native Method)
    at java.net.InetAddress$1.lookupAllHostAddr(InetAddress.java:849)
    at java.net.InetAddress.getAddressFromNameService(InetAddress.java:1202)
    at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1153)
    at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1083)
    Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
>
<Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FAILED>
<Error> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000383> <A critical service failed. The server will shut itself down>
<Notice> <WebLogicServer> <BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FORCE_SHUTTING_DOWN>

Changes

 serverA was decommissioned and it no longer resolves via ping command

Cause

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