LDAP Connection refused error on BPM Composer while starting Oracle BPM server (Doc ID 2752215.1)

Last updated on JUNE 20, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

When starting the Weblogic server on Oracle BPM installation the following errors can be observed on the standard output  during the startup:

<Feb 11, 2021 11:45:12,363 AM CST> <Error> <oracle.bpm.bac.security> <BEA-000000> <Exception thrown when loading principal for USER WEBLOGIC
oracle.igf.ids.IDSException: Operations error: entity=ou=people,ou=myrealm,dc=base_domain op=find mesg=
at oracle.igf.ids.arisid.ArisIdServiceManager.findEntity(ArisIdServiceManager.java:1712)
at oracle.igf.ids.UserManager.searchUser(UserManager.java:184)
at oracle.bpm.bac.security.model.IGFPrincipalService.buildPrincipal(IGFPrincipalService.java:180)
at oracle.bpm.bac.security.model.PrincipalService.buildPrincipal(PrincipalService.java:86)

...

Caused By: oracle.igf.ids.arisid.ArisIdConnectionException: Operations error: entity=ou=people,ou=myrealm,dc=base_domain op=find mesg= AdditionalInfo: LDAP Error 2 : <host>:<port>
at com.oracle.ovd.arisid.OvdIdsStackProvider.mapResultCode(OvdIdsStackProvider.java:774)
at com.oracle.ovd.arisid.OvdIdsStackProvider.doFind(OvdIdsStackProvider.java:1334)
at com.oracle.ovd.arisid.ArisIdStackProvider.doFind(ArisIdStackProvider.java:172)
at org.openliberty.arisid.Interaction.doFind(Interaction.java:1022)

..

Caused By: javax.naming.CommunicationException: <host>:<port> [Root exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)]
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:228)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:137)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1609)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2749)

Where  host and port correspond to the WLS server that is being started.

Cause

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