Error starting the Oracle Data Integrator 11g Studio at ODI_HOME/oracledi/client/odi.sh

Error starting the Oracle Data Integrator 11g Studio at ODI_HOME/oracledi/client/odi.sh


When trying to start the Oracle Data Integrator Studio to create the agent definition for Oracle Data Integrator Agent, you may hit errors as below and ODI studio fails to load.

When you do echo $JAVA_HOME, it may be set correctly but the issue still persists.

Verify if odi.conf under $ODI_HOME/oracledi/client/odi/bin has Set JAVA Home parameter defined correctly. 

You end up seeing errors as below and ODI Studio fails to load if Java home parameter is set incorrectly.

      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at oracle.ide.boot.PCLMain.callMain(PCLMain.java:63)
        at oracle.ide.boot.PCLMain.main(PCLMain.java:55)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at oracle.classloader.util.MainClass.invoke(MainClass.java:128)
        at oracle.ide.boot.IdeLauncher.bootClassLoadersAndMain(IdeLauncher.java:190)
        at oracle.ide.boot.IdeLauncher.launchImpl(IdeLauncher.java:90)
        at oracle.ide.boot.IdeLauncher.launch(IdeLauncher.java:65)
        at oracle.ide.boot.IdeLauncher.main(IdeLauncher.java:55)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at oracle.ide.boot.Launcher.invokeMain(Launcher.java:714)
        at oracle.ide.boot.Launcher.launchImpl(Launcher.java:117)
        at oracle.ide.boot.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:69)
        at oracle.ide.boot.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:59)

oracle.odi.runtime.agent.invocation.InvocationException: ODI-1424: Agent host or port cannot be reached

oracle.odi.runtime.agent.invocation.InvocationException: ODI-1424: Agent host or port cannot be reached

oracle.odi.runtime.agent.invocation.InvocationException: ODI-1424: Agent host or port cannot be reached using http://localhost.localdomain.com:18502/oraclediagent.
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.invocation.RemoteRuntimeAgentInvoker.reThrowAgentErrorAsInvocation(RemoteRuntimeAgentInvoker.java:1301)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.invocation.RemoteRuntimeAgentInvoker.invoke(RemoteRuntimeAgentInvoker.java:277)
at oracle.odi.runtime.agent.invocation.RemoteRuntimeAgentInvoker.invokeIsAlive(RemoteRuntimeAgentInvoker.java:428)
at oracle.odi.ui.action.SnpsPopupActionTestAgentHandler.actionPerformed(SnpsPopupActionTestAgentHandler.java:67)
at com.sunopsis.graphical.frame.edit.EditFrameSnpAgent.jButtonTestAgent_ActionPerformed(EditFrameSnpAgent.java:991)
at com.sunopsis.graphical.frame.edit.EditFrameSnpAgent.connEtoC...


bash-3.2$ ./agent.sh -NAME=OracleDIAgent -PORT=18502
NOTIFICATION ODI-1128 Agent OracleDIAgent is starting. Container: STANDALONE. Agent Version: 11.1.1.7.0 - 02/03/2013. Port: 18502. JMX Port: 19502.
NOTIFICATION ODI-1111 Agent OracleDIAgent started. Agent version: 11.1.1.7.0 - 02/03/2013. Port: 18502. JMX Port: 19502.
NOTIFICATION ODI-1136 Starting Schedulers on Agent OracleDIAgent.
 ERROR ODI-1131 Agent OracleDIAgent encountered an error: ODI-1540: Agent OracleDIAgent start failure: error while trying to use Http Port 18502. Caused by: Address already in use java.net.BindException: Address already in use


bash-3.2$ netstat|grep 18502

tcp 0 0 localhost:18502 localhost:18502 ESTABLISHED


Caused by: Address already in use java.net.BindException: Address already in use

This error indicates there is a port conflict & the port is already in use. 

In this case, there was a conflict with odi_server1 managed server & the agent. Issue resolved after shutting down odi_server1 managed server, starting the odi agent & then start odi_server1 again ...