Oracle VM: Fail to start up ovmm service timed out with error SQLException: Data Source ovm-odof-ds does not exist, after re-installed OVMM and restored DB backup (Doc ID 2477761.1)

Last updated on APRIL 18, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

After re-installed OVMM with same UUID and restored from DB backup, start ovmm service failed:
# service ovmm start
Starting Oracle VM Manager Time out ...

AdminServer log has error:
####<2018-11-27T13:26:54.271-0800> <Error> <oracle.ovm.web.OVMManagerCoreServlet> <ovm> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (sel
f-tuning)'> <> <> <ba3f9321-dc80-4c42-901c-653ba47badfb-00000004> <1543354014271> <BEA-000000> <Failed to initialize the OVMManagerCoreServlet.
javax.servlet.ServletException: CRITICAL - Data source failure: Pool connect failed : java.sql.SQLException: Data Source ovm-odof-ds does not exist. - Shutting down system!
at oracle.ovm.web.OVMManagerCoreServlet.getDatabaseDialect(OVMManagerCoreServlet.java:356)
at oracle.ovm.web.OVMManagerCoreServlet.init(OVMManagerCoreServlet.java:184)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:337)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:288)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:57)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.initServletInstance(StubSecurityHelper.java:98)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:86)
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Changes

During re-installation of Oracle VM Manager software, new password given other than previous one.

Cause

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