SA-27070

Summary

Environment has 54 Nodes, and 8 Nodes are currently down/non-startable. NOTE that existing environment is fine as long as they dont shutdown anything.

Error Messages

The WebSphere stdout log contains the following message:


============ PegaRULES Bootstrap Configuration ============
Date: Mon Aug 08 01:36:05 BST 2016
Java Version: IBM Corporation 1.6.0
Configuration: wsjar:file:<filepath>
Pega-EngineCode: <none specified>
JNDI Reference: java:comp/env/jdbc/PegaRULES
Database: DB2 DSN10015
Driver: IBM DB2 JDBC Universal Driver Architecture 3.62.73

(!) Unable to use given database configuration
(!) Unable to locate classes on filesystem
=============== End Bootstrap Configuration ===============

[8/8/16 1:36:05:920 BST] 0000000a PRBootstrap E com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.PRBootstrap Error initializing PRAppLoader
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.phase2.PRBootstrapImpl
at com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.PRMiniLoader.loadClass(PRMiniLoader.java:365)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:626)
at com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.PRBootstrap.checkForStartup(PRBootstrap.java:589)
...

Steps to Reproduce

To reproduce, just shutdown a node. The node will not restart.

Root Cause

The JDBC configuration, custom property setting was missing

Resolution

The following custom property as per the installation guide was missing in the environment:

Name: currentSchema Value: <user schema name>

Name: currentFunctionPath Value: SYSIBM, SYSFUN,<user schema name>
Name: fullyMaterializeLobData Value: true
Name: fullyMaterializeInputStreams Value: true
Name: progressiveStreaming Value: 2
Name: progressiveLocators Value: 2
Name: webSphereDefaultIsolationLevel Value: 2

Once the details were entered the system became responsive and was able to be restarted.