Lengthy errormessage while creating OID

For most of the Fusion Middleware domains or systems components I setup for clients I use scripts. Today, while creating a OID, I decided to type in the commands manually. This resulted in the following:

$ /u01/app/oracle/admin/instances/XXXXX/oid_instance_XXXXXXXX/bin/opmnctl  createcomponent -componentType OID -componentName area51_oid -Db_info rdbms-scan.area51.local:1521:srv4oid -Host oid.area51.local -Port 3060 -Sport 3131

Command requires login to weblogic admin server (oid.area51.local):
  Username: weblogic
  Password:

Creating empty component directories...Done
Provisioning OID files for area51_oid
  OID onCreate....

Enter ODS password:
  Validating OID input parameters
Enter ODSSM password:
oracle.as.config.ProvisionException: Error deleting credential odssm from CSF
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponentHelper.delCredFromCSF(OIDComponentHelper.java:2373)
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponentHelper.removeCreds(OIDComponentHelper.java:2345)
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponent.onRemove(OIDComponent.java:429)
        at oracle.as.config.impl.OracleASComponentBaseImpl.remove(OracleASComponentBaseImpl.java:287)
        at oracle.as.config.impl.OracleASComponentBaseImpl.remove(OracleASComponentBaseImpl.java:174)
        at oracle.as.config.impl.OracleASComponentBaseImpl.remove(OracleASComponentBaseImpl.java:155)
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponent.onCreate(OIDComponent.java:227)
        at oracle.as.config.impl.OracleASComponentBaseImpl.createComponent(OracleASComponentBaseImpl.java:597)
        at oracle.as.config.impl.OracleASComponentBaseImpl.create(OracleASComponentBaseImpl.java:106)
        at oracle.as.config.provisioner.commands.CreateComponentCommand.execute(CreateComponentCommand.java:40)
        at oracle.as.config.provisioner.InstallerCmdLine.run(InstallerCmdLine.java:146)
        at oracle.as.config.provisioner.InstallerCmdLine.main(InstallerCmdLine.java:46)
Caused by: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: oracle.as.config.ProvisionException:
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponentHelper.delCredFromCSF(OIDComponentHelper.java:2354)
        ... 11 more
Caused by: oracle.as.config.ProvisionException:
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponentHelper$3.run(OIDComponentHelper.java:2367)
        ... 13 more
Caused by: oracle.security.jps.config.JpsConfigurationException: /u01/app/oracle/admin/instances/eoid2/oid_instance_oesv9510/config/JPS/jps-config-jse.xml (No such file or directory)
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.config.xml.XmlConfigurationFactory.initDefaultConfiguration(XmlConfigurationFactory.java:439)
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.config.xml.XmlConfigurationFactory.getDefaultConfiguration(XmlConfigurationFactory.java:338)
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.config.xml.XmlConfigurationFactory.getConfiguration(XmlConfigurationFactory.java:160)
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.core.runtime.JpsContextFactoryImpl.(JpsContextFactoryImpl.java:112)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
        at oracle.security.jps.util.JpsUtil.newInstance(JpsUtil.java:190)
        at oracle.security.jps.JpsContextFactory$1.run(JpsContextFactory.java:74)
        at oracle.security.jps.JpsContextFactory$1.run(JpsContextFactory.java:72)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at oracle.security.jps.JpsContextFactory.getContextFactory(JpsContextFactory.java:71)
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponentHelper$3.run(OIDComponentHelper.java:2357)
        ... 13 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /u01/app/oracle/admin/instances/eoid2/oid_instance_oesv9510/config/JPS/jps-config-jse.xml (No such file or directory)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.(FileInputStream.java:120)
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.common.util.XmlSchemaValidationUtil.doValidation(XmlSchemaValidationUtil.java:96)
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.config.xml.XmlConfigurationFactory.initDefaultConfiguration(XmlConfigurationFactory.java:418)
        ... 28 more
    Skipping oesv9510_oid unregistration. It is not currently registered with the adminserver.
    Deleting oesv9510_oid directories
    Invoking opmn reload...Done
Command failed: Exception in onCreate()
Details are logged in /u01/app/oracle/admin/instances/eoid2/oid_instance_oesv9510/diagnostics/logs/OPMN/opmn/provision.log

opmnctl createcomponent: failed.

Now this is a rather lengthy error message and it really surprised me. Since I just associated the security store for the domain to a database, and this error pointing towards JPS-config I figured something must be wrong with the reassociateSecurityStore wlst comamnd. So I checked logfiles, My Oracle Support and Google before I checked the provision.log.

The provision log showed me these messages

SEVERE: Command failed:
oracle.as.config.ProvisionException: Exception in onCreate()
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponent.onCreate(OIDComponent.java:235)
        at oracle.as.config.impl.OracleASComponentBaseImpl.createComponent(OracleASComponentBaseImpl.java:597)
        at oracle.as.config.impl.OracleASComponentBaseImpl.create(OracleASComponentBaseImpl.java:106)
        at oracle.as.config.provisioner.commands.CreateComponentCommand.execute(CreateComponentCommand.java:40)
        at oracle.as.config.provisioner.InstallerCmdLine.run(InstallerCmdLine.java:146)
        at oracle.as.config.provisioner.InstallerCmdLine.main(InstallerCmdLine.java:46)
Caused by: oracle.as.config.ProvisionException: -Namespace parameter missing
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponentHelper.validateParams(OIDComponentHelper.java:314)
        at oracle.iam.management.oid.install.wls.OIDComponent.onCreate(OIDComponent.java:158)
        ... 5 more

Aha. So that was a enormous error message that tried to tell me “Hey, you missed the -Namespace parameter”.

P.S. 11.1.1.7 also introduced a new process called oiddispd. documentation” gives this description:
“Beginning with Oracle Internet Directory 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.7.0), the OIDLDAPD process is separated as the OIDDISPD (dispatcher) process and the OIDLDAPD (server) process. On UNIX and Linux systems, however, the ps -ef command will continue to show both of these processes as OIDLDAPD at runtime.”

If you happen to separate software from configuration like I do (binaries owned by oracle, oid processes run as some other user) you need to chown the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oiddispd process and chmod it to 4740

Hope this helps.