Last updated on OCTOBER 24, 2016

Applies to:

Symptoms

• During an OracleAS 10g Rel 2 install the AS Console Agent Configuration Assistants fails with the following errors in the InstallActions log file:

Command = oracle.sysman.emcp.agent.AgentPlugIn has failed 
Exception : java.lang.Exception: Failed to allocate port = Failed to allocate free Enterprise 
Manager Central Console Port from Default Range 1830 to 1849. Please free a port from the Range 
and re-try the installation. 

• The following errors are also found in the oraInstall<date>.err:

java.lang.NullPointerException at oracle.sysman.oii.oiin.OiinNetOps.addNICInfo(OiinNetOps.java:143) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiin.OiinNetOps.computeNICList(OiinNetOps.java:108) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiin.OiinNetOps.<init>(OiinNetOps.java:75) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiin.OiinNetOps.getNetOps(OiinNetOps.java:89) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifw.OiifwHostNameWCDE.initialize(OiifwHostNameWCDE.java :111) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifb.OiifbCondIterator.iterate(OiifbCondIterator.java:15 2) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicDepWizEngine.doOperation(OiicDepWizEngine.java:424) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiif.oiifb.OiifbCondIterator.iterate(OiifbCondIterator.java:17 1) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicPullSession.doOperation(OiicPullSession.java:1274) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicSessionWrapper.doOperation(OiicSessionWrapper.java:28 9) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.run(OiicInstaller.java:547) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.runInstaller(OiicInstaller.java:935) 
at oracle.sysman.oii.oiic.OiicInstaller.main(OiicInstaller.java:872) 
Failed to allocate port = Failed to allocate free Enterprise Manager Central Console Port from Default Range 1830 to 1849. Please free a port from the Range and re-try the installation.

• The output from a 'netstat' command suggests that all the ports in the range specified by the error are open and available.

Cause