Installing OpenAM 13.x with an external OpenDJ instance fails with a NPE
The purpose of this article is to provide assistance if installing or configuring OpenAM with an external OpenDJ instance fails with a "Setting up monitoring authentication file.AMSetupServlet.processRequest: errorjava.lang.NullPointerException" error.
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Symptoms
The installation fails when attempting to set up the monitoring authentication file.
You can see this failure in the browser if you are configuring OpenAM via the browser:
Checking configuration directory /openam/conf....Success. Reinitializing system properties....Done Configuring server instance....Done Setting up monitoring authentication file. null, refer to install.log under /openam/conf for more information.The install.log (located in $HOME directory) also shows the same error, with additional details:
Checking configuration directory /openam/conf....Success. Reinitializing system properties....Done Configuring server instance....Done Setting up monitoring authentication file.AMSetupServlet.processRequest: errorjava.lang.NullPointerException at java.net.URLEncoder.encode(URLEncoder.java:205) at com.sun.identity.setup.BootstrapCreator.getBootStrapURL(BootstrapCreator.java:189) at com.sun.identity.setup.BootstrapCreator.update(BootstrapCreator.java:104) at com.sun.identity.setup.BootstrapCreator.updateBootstrap(BootstrapCreator.java:82) at com.sun.identity.common.configuration.ServerConfigXMLObserver.update(ServerConfigXMLObserver.java:108) ...Recent Changes
Installed, upgraded or reconfigured OpenAM with an external OpenDJ instance.
Causes
The external data store already contains some entries, perhaps from a failed install, which is causing the install to fail.
Solution
This issue can be resolved by removing the old entries from the data store before reinstalling or reconfiguring.
You can do this by importing an LDIF file that just contains the data store root suffix (for example, dc=example,dc=com); this will remove the backend with any entries and replace with the base entry. You can use an import-ldif command such as:
$ ./import-ldif --hostname ds1.example.com --port 4444 --backendID userRoot --includeBranch dc=example,dc=com --ldifFile /path/to/remove.ldifSee Also
OpenDJ Reference › Tools Reference › import-ldif
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