Linux HP SIM problems - SSH, server issues

[kschafer]

Okay, I'm new to HP SIM. I'm setting it up for some new HP blades that we recently installed.

Everything has gone well, with a few exceptions.

1) When attempting to configure the client via SSH, either through SIM or the mxagentconfig command, ssh would not allow a logon. Only after I changed PasswordAuthentication to yes in the /etc/sshd_config file, did it work. Is this a common workaround? What are the security implications of enabling this?

2) SIM was installed yesterday and the online interface has been working well. This morning however, I try to logon to our SIM server, and I get this message (see below). Not sure what happened. I tried mxstop/mxstart and restarted the hpsim daemon, did not seem to help. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Error as mentioned above:
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HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:372)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor243.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:75)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor244.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:217)


root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
com.hp.mx.portal.help.MxRegistrationBean.verifyTimeStamp(MxRegistrationBean.java:238)
com.hp.mx.portal.help.MxRegistrationBean.verifyRegLaunch(MxRegistrationBean.java:161)
org.apache.jsp.mxportal.home.MxPortal_jsp._jspService(MxPortal_jsp.java:216)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor243.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

[kschafer]

Wait, here is the full error page. I didn't get it all before.

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HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:372)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor243.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:75)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor244.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:217)


root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
com.hp.mx.portal.help.MxRegistrationBean.verifyTimeStamp(MxRegistrationBean.java:238)
com.hp.mx.portal.help.MxRegistrationBean.verifyRegLaunch(MxRegistrationBean.java:161)
org.apache.jsp.mxportal.home.MxPortal_jsp._jspService(MxPortal_jsp.java:216)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:94)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:324)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor243.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:161)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:75)
sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor244.invoke(Unknown Source)
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Unknown Source)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:272)
org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:217)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0.30 logs.


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Apache Tomcat/5.0.30