The OpenNMS Web User Interface Has Experienced an Error

Description

I just completed a fresh install of Opennms on Windows 2008 R2 Data Center and I'm getting quite a few similar errors.

This is after going to Admin > Discovery

I add a new range of 10.1.0.1 to 10.1.0.254 and then click save a restart discovery. Here's the error message and output:

The OpenNMS web UI has encountered an error that it does not know how to handle.

Possible causes could be that the database is not responding, the OpenNMS application has stopped or is not running, or there is an issue with the servlet container.

Please bring this message to the attention of the person responsible for maintaining OpenNMS for your organization, and have him or her check that OpenNMS, the external servlet container (if applicable), and the database are all running without errors.

To reveal details of the error encountered and instructions for reporting it, click here.

java.io.FileNotFoundException
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:212)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:165)
at org.opennms.netmgt.config.DiscoveryConfigFactory.saveXml(DiscoveryConfigFactory.java:234)
at org.opennms.netmgt.config.DiscoveryConfigFactory.saveConfiguration(DiscoveryConfigFactory.java:261)
at org.opennms.web.admin.discovery.ActionDiscoveryServlet.doPost(ActionDiscoveryServlet.java:232)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:547)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1355)
at org.extremecomponents.table.filter.AbstractExportFilter.doFilter(AbstractExportFilter.java:49)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1326)
at org.opennms.web.StoreRequestPropertiesFilter.doFilter(StoreRequestPropertiesFilter.java:77)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1326)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:399)
at org.opennms.web.springframework.security.AuthFilterEnabler.doFilterHttp(AuthFilterEnabler.java:100)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:109)
at org.springframework.security.intercept.web.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:83)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SessionFixationProtectionFilter.doFilterHttp(SessionFixationProtectionFilter.java:67)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.ui.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilterHttp(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:101)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilterHttp(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:105)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.wrapper.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilterHttp(SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:91)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.ui.basicauth.BasicProcessingFilter.doFilterHttp(BasicProcessingFilter.java:174)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilterHttp(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:278)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.ui.logout.LogoutFilter.doFilterHttp(LogoutFilter.java:89)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilterHttp(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:235)
at org.springframework.security.ui.SpringSecurityFilter.doFilter(SpringSecurityFilter.java:53)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:411)
at org.springframework.security.util.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:188)
at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:237)
at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:167)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1326)
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter.doFilterInternal(OpenSessionInViewFilter.java:198)
at org.springframework.web.filter.OncePerRequestFilter.doFilter(OncePerRequestFilter.java:76)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1326)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:479)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:119)
at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:520)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:227)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:940)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:409)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:186)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:874)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:117)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:149)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:110)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:349)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:441)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:921)
at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:784)
at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:223)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:46)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:545)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:43)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:598)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:533)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

I just installed this today in a lab environment on Virtualbox running the same version of Java (jdk-7u9), postgreSQL (9.0), and opennms (1.10.6-1). I don't experience any issues in the lab environment. All are Win 64bit.

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Windows 2008 R2 Data Center

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Seth Leger July 11, 2013 at 3:41 PM

As Alton mentioned, you need to run OpenNMS in a console with Administrator privileges.

Alton Lord March 15, 2013 at 3:21 PM

I had the same issue (also appears when trying to add new users via the web interface). I resolved the issue by opening a command prompt by right clicking and choosing 'run as administrator' and then starting OpenNMS in this elevated command prompt.

David Money November 6, 2012 at 8:23 PM

I uninstalled and re-installed in C:\OpenNMS and still get the same error.

Ron Roskens November 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM

OpenNMS is attempting to write to or create the file $OPENNMS_HOME/etc/discovery-configuration.xml and is unable too.

You need to figure out why the Windows 2008 R2 Data Center is preventing it from doing so.

Perhaps installing into C:\OpenNMS instead of C:\Program Files\OpenNMS?

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Created November 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Updated July 11, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Resolved July 11, 2013 at 3:41 PM