CABI 4.1 PostInstall error

[Legacy User]

Hi

I have installed CABI 4.1 and am following the post install instructions here ... Post Installation Configuration for CABI - CA Spectrum - 10.1 to 10.1.2 - CA Technologies Documentation 

 

When I run the PostInstall.bat utility I get the following error ...

 

C:\Users\idc009spectrum\Downloads\PostInstall\postinstall.vbs(657, 4) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Permission denied

 

See screenshot for full details.

 

I'm sure the password is correct as I get an authentication error if I use an incorrect password.

 

Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas what's going wrong?

 

Regards, John

[Silvio Okamoto]

Hi John,

 

Assure you are running the PostInstall.bat from a temporary directory and the Anti-virus is temporarily disabled.

 

Follow these steps:

1. Copy the PostInstall folder from <CABI VCD>\utilities folder to the local disk.

 

Thanks,

Silvio

[Legacy User]

Hi Sivio

I have used a temp directory, you should be able to see this in the screenshot attached to the original post.

 

I've just disabled AV and retried and get the same error message.

 

Regards, John

[Legacy User]

Hi Silvio

In the docs page it mentions the location of the log file, so I've had a look at this and here are the last few lines ...

 

[11/11/2016 14:34:06] [main] Did not selected to migrate CABI 3.x data
[11/11/2016 14:34:06] [main] Checking whether any CABI 3.x BIAR files are present
[11/11/2016 14:34:06] [main] No CABI 3.x biar files found
[11/11/2016 14:34:06] [main] Checking whether any CABI 4.x BIAR files are present
[11/11/2016 14:34:06] [main] No CABI 4.x biar files found
[11/11/2016 14:34:07] [main] Did not selected to install CA Sample Templates
[11/11/2016 14:34:07] [main] Taking CABI 4.1 Administrator password
[11/11/2016 14:34:11] [main] Taking CABI 4.1 Administrator password**************************
[11/11/2016 14:34:18] [LoginCheck4x.java] Authentication is done for CABI 4.1
[11/11/2016 14:34:19] [main] Updating CAF View properties
[11/11/2016 14:34:25] [UpdateCAFViewProperties.java] CAF View Properties already exists
[11/11/2016 14:34:26] [main] UpdateCAFViewProperties ran successfully

 

This is telling me the utility ran successfully. Do you know is there some way I can check that it has or not?

 

Regards, John

[Silvio Okamoto]

Hi John,

 

There are two postinstall.log files.

- One is located in %TEMP% directory and will have a few entries

- Another one is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\logging directory.

 

Thanks,

Silvio

[Legacy User]

Hi Silvio

I have rerun the utility and still getting the vbscript error.  The contents of the log file in %TEMP% is as follows.

 

[14/11/2016 12:51:40] [checkOSbittype] Windows 64bit system detected
[14/11/2016 12:51:40] [main] Verifying the current user permissions to execute this utility completely
[14/11/2016 12:51:43] [main] User belongs to Administrators group and has the permissions to execute
[14/11/2016 12:51:43] [RegValueExists] CABI installed path is D:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\

 

The contents of the log file in the logging directory is pretty much the same as before.

 

Is there some way to know whether the utility has run successfully or not?

 

John

[Silvio Okamoto]

Hi John,

 

Is this a Windows 2012 machine?

If positive, did you launch the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) window as Administrator?

I have seen issues running the Post Install procedure in a Command Prompt if it is not launched as Run as administrator.

 

 

Thanks,

Silvio

[Legacy User]

Hi Silvio

Yes it is 2012 and no I wasn't launching as Admin. I have now tried that and still get the same error. See below screenshot.

 

John

 

[Silvio Okamoto]

Hi John,

 

Have you tried deactivating the UAC?

Windows Server 2012: Deactivating UAC - TechNet Articles - United States (English) - TechNet Wiki 

 

Have you tried running the postinstall.bat from another temporary directory (instead of yours user home directory)?

 

Thanks,

Silvio

[Legacy User]

I have just tried deactivating UAC (and rebooting) and using PostInstall from a new directory (C:\PostInstall) and running both as the default user (who is in the Admin group) and using "Run as administrator" ...

 

And I still get the same error.

 

Is it not possible to somehow check if the script has done what it's supposed to do? 

 

John

[Silvio Okamoto]

Hi John,

 

This is what is expected in the last portion of the log file below:

D:\Program Files(x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\logging\postinstall.log

 

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[11/14/2016 2:32:56 PM] [DeployCustomApps.java] File copied from .\cacaf\custom1\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webreporting.jar to D:\Program Files(x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webreporting.jar
[11/14/2016 2:32:56 PM] [DeployCustomApps.java] File copied from .\cacaf\custom1\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webutil.jar to D:\Program Files(x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webutil.jar
[11/14/2016 2:32:56 PM] [DeployCustomApps.java] File copied from .\cacaf\custom1\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\web.xml to D:\Program Files(x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
[11/14/2016 2:32:56 PM] [DeployCustomApps.java] webpath folder custom1 copying is done
[11/14/2016 2:33:01 PM] [DeployCustomApps.java] webpath jar creation is done for custom1
[11/14/2016 2:33:01 PM] [main] DeployCustomApps failed
[11/14/2016 2:33:01 PM] [main] Found the default Tomcat, hence performing it's related operations
[11/14/2016 2:33:01 PM] [main] CustomParams.properties file is already exists
[11/14/2016 2:33:01 PM] [main] CustomParams web path is already exists
[11/14/2016 2:33:02 PM] [main] Current status of default tomcat is Stopped
[11/14/2016 2:33:03 PM] [main] Default tomcat got stopped, now deleting workdir
[11/14/2016 2:33:08 PM] [main] tomcat work directory is D:\Program Files(x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat/work/Catalina
[11/14/2016 2:33:27 PM] [main] CleanTomcatWorkDirectory ran successfully
[11/14/2016 2:33:27 PM] [main] Current status of default tomcat is Running
[11/14/2016 2:33:27 PM] [main] Did not find the WACs server
[11/14/2016 2:33:27 PM] [main] If you are using external web application server, redeployall the web applications to see CAF effect
[11/14/2016 2:33:27 PM] [main] CABI 4.1 Post installation is completed with errors

 

But I don't think you have those entries above.

 

Thanks,

Silvio

[Legacy User]

Thanks Silvio

No I don't have any of those entries 

 

Any other ideas? 

 

Regards, John

[Silvio Okamoto]

Hi John,

Based in the following screenshots below, the vbscript is failing in line 657.

Please check why it is failing in the CopyFile operation.

Did you copy the whole PostInstall folder from the <CABI VCD>\utilities folder, as stated in the procedure below?

Customize CABI Setup for CA Spectrum

Perform the required configuration to deploy the Spectrum Customization on CABI machine. 

Note: This utility restarts the CABI’s Server Intelligence Agent.

Follow these steps:

1. Copy the PostInstall folder from <CABI VCD>\utilities folder to the local disk.

 

 

 

I hope this help.

Thanks,

Silvio

[Legacy User]

Hi Silvio

I did copy the whole PostInstall folder... so I checked the destination packages folder for the BusinessObjects_ClientAction_CrystalReport_Parameters* files and they were in that folder. 

I removed them and reran the PostInstall and it has now completed. The contents of the postinstall.log now end as follows ...

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[15/11/2016 15:48:57] [DeployCustomApps.java] File copied from .\cacaf\custom1\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webreporting.jar to D:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webreporting.jar
[15/11/2016 15:48:57] [DeployCustomApps.java] File copied from .\cacaf\custom1\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webutil.jar to D:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\lib\webutil.jar
[15/11/2016 15:48:57] [DeployCustomApps.java] File copied from .\cacaf\custom1\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\web.xml to D:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\webpath.UdmCAFApp\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
[15/11/2016 15:48:57] [DeployCustomApps.java] webpath folder custom1 copying is done
[15/11/2016 15:49:03] [DeployCustomApps.java] webpath jar creation is done for custom1
[15/11/2016 15:49:03] [main] DeployCustomApps failed
[15/11/2016 15:49:03] [main] Found the default Tomcat, hence performing it's related operations
[15/11/2016 15:49:03] [main] Copying of CustomParams.properties file is done
[15/11/2016 15:49:03] [main] Copying of CustomParams web path is done
[15/11/2016 15:49:04] [main] Current status of default tomcat is Stop Pending
[15/11/2016 15:49:11] [main] Current status of default tomcat is Stopped
[15/11/2016 15:49:23] [main] Default tomcat got stopped, now deleting workdir
[15/11/2016 15:49:28] [main] tomcat work directory is D:\Program Files (x86)\CA\SC\CommonReporting4\tomcat/work/Catalina
[15/11/2016 15:51:49] [main] CleanTomcatWorkDirectory ran successfully
[15/11/2016 15:51:49] [main] Current status of default tomcat is Start Pending
[15/11/2016 15:52:03] [main] Current status of default tomcat is Running
[15/11/2016 15:52:13] [main] Did not find the WACs server
[15/11/2016 15:52:13] [main] If you are using external web application server, redeployall the web applications to see CAF effect
[15/11/2016 15:52:13] [main] CABI 4.1 Post installation is completed with errors

 

So it looks like for some reason those BusinessObjects_ClientAction_CrystalReport_Parameters* files were left in the packages directory and the script couldn't overwrite them so bombed out. Not sure how that happened as I don't recall getting any other error than the ones I've listed here. As the files are subsequently removed from the packages directory as part of the PostInstall script it looks like it must have crashed at some point, but I don't know when.

 

In any case it looks ok now so thanks for all your help.

 

Regards, John