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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/andrewg">Andrew Glover</a> in <i>Datasource Configuration</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/588172#588172">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">This is avery interesting problem. I am running JBoss AS 5.1, with JDK 1.6.0_23, RedHatLinux 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64 OS on a VMWare vm named serverP1. Database isOracle 9i on a dedicated DB server.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">SETUP.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">I copied the default server to another directory and renamed it appP1, created asymbolic link in the server directory to appP1.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Changed the IP address and hostname in the startup script. Placed EAR and app-ds.xml in the deploy directory. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Started the server - everything is OK, ds is available and app works. </span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">NEXT cloned the vm and called it serverP2.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Renamed the appP1 directory appP2 and changed the symbolic link. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Changed the IP addr and hostname in the startup script.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Started the server - everything is OK, ds is available and app works. </span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">NEXT repeat above for serverP3 / appP3.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">This time the local DS is reported as Unavailable, but the app appears to be working just fine. Multiple restarts on change.<br/></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">(oh I am running through an F5 load balancer, but can hit each server directly)</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Now this happened to me before but in a slightly different way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Exactly the same set up as above with serverD1 / appD1. In this instance I copied appD1 to appD2, made the require IP / sym link changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> appD2 ds reported as unavailable.  So I deleted appD2, copied and renamed the default server. Same problem. Did this multiple times.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">I compared the boot.log and server.log across all servers and there are no significant differances.</span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Any ideas? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Thanx, Andrew</span></p></div>
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