Exalogic Lifecycle Toolkit (ELLC) Known Issues Note
(Doc ID 2110178.1)
Last updated on AUGUST 02, 2024
Applies to:
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.0.0.0 to 2.0.6.4.200114Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
Linux x86-64
Oracle Virtual Server x86-64
Purpose
This document provides detailed information on all known issues related to following Exalogic Lifecycle Tools.
- Exapasswd
- Exapatch
- Exabr
- Exalogs
- Exachk
- EMAgent Presetup
- Generic ELLC Installation Issues
NOTE: Most of the ELLC Toolkit known issues listed in this MOS Note are fixed in latest version of ELLC Toolkit. Latest version of ELLC Toolkit can be downloaded from following MOS Note:
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| Purpose |
| Scope |
| Details |
| EXAPASSWD Known Issues |
| Exalogic: Exapasswd Fails To Update Cisco Management Switch Password With "Syntax error while parsing 'help'" Error |
| Exalogic Virtual: Changing OVM Manager "admin" User Password Using Exapasswd Failing With "Admin server needs to be restarted due to non-dynamic changes" Java Runtime Error |
| Running Exapasswd On Exalogic Virtual Racks Fails With "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' " Error |
| EXALOGIC: Running Exapasswd Tool Throws "ERROR: ECU Configuration File Elcontrol.json Not Found" Error |
| Change Of Exalogic IB Switches Credentials Using Exapasswd Tool Does Not Work |
| Exalogic exapasswd Utility Changes Both AKD and ILOM Passwords When Using the "storage-nodes" Flag |
| ovm-*-targets fail when the ECU files are not present |
| Passwords with whitespace characters are not supported |
| ExaPasswd Cannot Handle Double/Single Quotes in SSH Keys |
| Exapasswd fails to change password for any component on Exalogic Virtual |
| Exalogic Exapasswd Rolls back Compute Node OS Credentials In EMOC Causing Sync Issues When Compute Node OS Credentials Is Changed Using Exapasswd Followed by Compute Node ILOM Credentials |
| Exapasswd fails to synchronize new password with OPS Center |
| Exalogic - Exapasswd Command Fails To change Infiniband Switches Root Passwords After Applying April 2018 & Later PSUs |
| Exalogic - Exapasswd For Compute Nodes Fails To Synchronize New Passwords With EMOC |
| Exalogic: Exapasswd Script Fails To Change Passwords For Infiniband Switches If Default Shell For ilom-admin Has Been Changed From /bin/bash |
| Exalogic Virtual: Exapasswd (ELLC Toolkit Version 14.2.10-b7554) Fails To Update Passwords Of Rack Components With Traceback & "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'" Errors |
| Exalogic Virtual: Issues When Using Exapasswd Part of ELLC Toolkit part of October 2016 & Later PSUs To Change Passwords of Compute Nodes of Older PSU racks running PSU's Older Than October 2016 |
| Exapasswd - Unable to sync password change on Cisco Management Switch with EMOC |
| January 2019 PSU Exapasswd 1.0.3 (build 12598) - Unable to change the password of OVM admin user |
| July 2019 PSU Exapasswd 1.0.4 (build 12626) - Failed to change the password of OVMM admin user and sync to ops-center |
| January 2020 PSU Exapasswd 1.0.4 (build 12626) - EXAPASSWD: OVM-ADMIN CHANGE PASSWORD FAILED AND SYNC WITH EMOC |
| July 2020 PSU Exapasswd 1.0.5 (build 12626) - EXAPASSWD: ovs-agents error: failed to login to OVMM shell |
| October 2020 PSU Exapasswd 1.0.7 (build 12761) - EXAPASSWD OVS-AGENTS TARGET GIVES FALSE SUCCESS AND DOES NOT CHANGE PASSWORD |
| January 2021 PSU Exapasswd 1.0.8 (build 12761) - Exapasswd failed to sync with EMOC for Storage Iloms while running for storage head. |
| January 2021 PSU Exapasswd 1.0.8 (build 12761) - Exapasswd --ovs-agents error: failed to login to OVMM shell |
| Exapasswd - unable to change password of Physical node when Exapasswd is run from OVS node |
| Exapasswd - ovs-agents target fails with login to ovm shell error |
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| EXAPATCH Known Issues |
| Exapatch for vserver fails with error : transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error warning: u <..> ctrl <..> nrefs != 0 (<ZFS IP address> http) updating RPMs failed |
| Exapatch Fails To Upgrade Compute Nodes And Guest vServers With "IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Trying other mirror" Error |
| Exalogic Exapatch Fails With [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found" |
| Receiving Error When Patching Guest vServer with Exalogic PSU - ERROR: Missing "--uri URI-to-patch" option |
| Exalogic: Exapatch Completes Successfully But With "WARNING: unable to update patch history: Unable to find unique identifier XXXXX for YYYYY nn.nn.nn.nnn in the rack history file." Message |
| Exapatch PrePatchCheck On Infiniband Gateway Switch Fails With "unable to communicate with NM2-GW-IB-Switch" Error During Exalogic Patching |
| Exapatch Execution Failing With "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getHostName'" Error During Exalogic Virtual 2.0.6 Upgrade |
| April 2016 PSU Fails to Patch Exalogic Linux 6.5 Guest vServer |
| Exapatch Pre-patch Check for Exalogic Control Services Fails Regardless of the Availability of Recent ExaBR Backups |
| Exalogic Exapatch Precheck Fails With "ERROR: Failed to find "exabr" backup of xxxxxxx less than 7 days old." Error |
| EXAPATCH randomly reports incorrect password on PrePatchCheck |
| Exalogic Physical: When Running ExaPatch, During Prechecks CheckSWProfile Is Getting Failed For All The Compute Nodes Due To YUM Dependency On Openssh (openssh-askpass) Package |
| Exalogic: Exapatch Failing With "Patch Definition File Specified is a Directory" Error |
| Exapatch PrePatchCheck On Guest vServer Failing With "Unable to identify applicable pre/post patch checks" Error During April 2015 PSU (2.0.6.2.1) Upgrade |
| ExaPatch - NM2 GW IB switch upgrade failed for the version 2.2.7-2 (April 2019 PSU) |
| ExaPatch - NM2 GW IB switch pre-patch check or patching failed with MAD_RPC ERRORS (April 2019 PSU) |
| Exapatch is not processing the password correctly when the password contains special character in the URI |
| Exapatch failed to upgrade the ZFS software |
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| EXABR Known Issues |
| Exalogic: Restoring IB Switches Using Exabr Fails With "ERROR: Unable to signal some of the smnodes" Error |
| Exalogic: Backup Of Exalogic Control Stack Using Exabr Failing On Exalogic Virtual 2.0.6.4.0 Racks Failing With "INTERNAL ERROR: Traceback " Error |
| Generation of ExaBR Configuration File Fails With "/exalogic-lcdata/ Folder Not Writeable" Error In Exalogic Virtual Environment |
| Exalogic: Exabr Fails To Complete And Throws "ERROR: The Control stack is currently started" When Backing UP Control Stack |
| Exabr List Command Does Not List Exabr Backup Directories For Exalogic Components |
| Exalogic Control Stack Restart Using ExaBR Fails To Start OVAB and EC Services |
| Restoring Exalogic Compute Node ILOM Using Exabr Throws Warning Messages With Permission Denied Errors At WS-MAN Properties In ILOM Event Logs |
| Exalogic ExaBR Failing With "ERROR: Control VM list in the OVM repository not valid: ['ExalogicControlOpsCenterPC2', 'ExalogicControlOpsCenterPC1']" Error Message |
| Exalogic ExaBR: Backup of ILOM Fails With "Cannot Extract SP Firmware Version" Error |
| Control Stack Backup in Exalogic using ExaBR fails with "INTERNAL ERROR: Traceback" error |
| Restarting Exalogic Control vServers Using Exabr Stops Guest vServers |
| Exalogic Exabr Does Not Backup LAG Configuration File (/conf/lag.conf) File On Infiniband Gateway Switches |
| Commands fail on STIG-hardened on user vServers |
| control-register command fails on Oracle VM Server node |
| Control stack commands fail when an Oracle VM Server node is down |
| LVM Back Ups fail for certain locale configurations |
| Multiple restores corrupt user vServers created using the EECS 2.0.6 Guest Base Template |
| The ib-register command fails on InfiniBand gateway switches at version 2.1.3 and higher |
| Exalogic: Exabr Backups Failing with "ERROR: Port 8083 is in use. We require this port to serve the data" Error |
| Backing Up Exalogic Guest vServer Using Exabr Failing With "Timed out" Error During File System Backup |
| Exabr Fails To Start Control-Stack vServers On Correct Designated Compute Nodes |
| Exalogic: Exabr Reports "ERROR: init-ssh operation not supported for the target of type 'Cisco switch' " Error On Cisco Switch |
| ExaBR backup of a vServer is failing with : ERROR: LVM Disk "#/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01" could not be found |
| Exalogic: ExaBR control-register Failing On Replaced NM2-GW Switch |
| Exalogic: Exabr Can Trigger Unexpected Behavior When Used After Running cnode-vserver-control.py |
| Exalogic: Exabr Throwing "ERROR: Timeout reached" Error When Starting Exalogic Control Stack |
| ExaBR - UNABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY PARSE XML INPUT OCCURS WHILE RESTORING ILOM |
| Exalogic Exabr Fails To Restore Configuration Of IB Switches Running With 2.2.X Firmware With "Load partially successful" Warning Message |
| Executing Exabr Script Its Returning Back To Prompt Without Doing Any Operations |
| Exalogic Exabr ib-register Command To Register New Replaced Infiniband Switch Port GUIDs Fails With "Unable to get rpc version on some nodes in the fabric" Error |
| Exalogic: Exabr Backup On IB Switches Fails With "ERROR: Timed out" Error |
| Exalogic: Restoring vServer Using Exabr Fails With "Connection refused" Error |
| Exalogic: Exabr Backup Of Guest vServers Fails With "ERROR: Root (/) is not a LVM Volume" Error |
| Exalogic: Exabr ib-register Command On IB Switches Failing With "Error: partition key <Pkey> does not exist on the Infiniband fabric" Errors |
| Exalogic Virtual : Exabr accidently removes the latest backup Of control stack during creation of a new backup |
| EXABR Backup fails with ERROR while trying to backup "/var/lib/xenstored/tdb.0x20f37d0" |
| Backup of storage node fails if ILOM password is different from SN nodes |
| Restore of NM2 Switch fails ast first attempt and passes in second attempt |
| Exalogic: Exabr Does Not Propagate IB Partitions During Restore |
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| EXALOGS Known Issues |
| Exalogs: Issue Running Exalogs On Exalogic Virtual Environment (Not Collecting Data From EC1) |
| How To Run Full Exalogs On Exalogic Solaris Compute Nodes? |
| ExaLogs fails when running from or to directories with space characters |
| EXALOGS: Collection Of Logs From EC1 vServer Fails Due to the Error: No Space On Filesystem |
| Exalogs 1.3.7 - Exalogs encounters an error while executing under the /opt directory |
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| EXACHK Known Issues |
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| EMAgent Presetup Known Issues |
| "emagent_presetup" Script Fails With Trust Errors On IB Switches On Exalogic Racks (Doc ID 2054496.1) |
| EMAGENT is unable to cleanup and configure PDUs on Virtual Linux |
| EMAGENT giving warning for IB Switches during cleanup |
| EMAGENT presetup asking for IB Switch password number of times |
| Exalogic Physical : EM agent deployment fails to installed at physical Exalogic compute node OL6 |
| Exalogic Linux Physical Rack Discovery Using "emagent_presetup" Script Picking Wrong EMCC Monitoring User Instead Of "oracle" User |
| Exalogic: EM Agent Failing to Start on EMOC Control vServer With "java.net.UnknownHostException" Error |
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| ELLC Installation Known Issues |
| ELLC 14.2 Installer fails when ZFS password contains special characters |
| Upgrade Of Exalogic Life Cycle Tools (ELCC) Tools to 14.2.2 Fails With "Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal" Error On EL-LITE Racks |
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| STIGFix Known Issues |
| STIGfix included in ELLC does not support OL6 compute nodes or Guest vServers |
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| ModifyLVMImg |
| ModifyLVMImg fails for certain locale configurations |
| ModifyLVM.sh Script In Exalogic Life Cycle (ELLC) 14.2.2 Tool Kit Fails With Errors And Does Not Work On OL 6 Base Template |
| Exalogic: ModifyLVMImg.sh Script Fails To Extend OL6 Base Template With "Physical volume '/dev/mapper/loop1p2' is already in volume group 'VolGroup00'" Error |
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| References |