I am very new to Appian. I just got done installing Appian on a WebLogic 12c ap

sameerk over 11 years ago

I am very new to Appian. I just got done installing Appian on a WebLogic 12c app server. All the services are starting up and I can navigate to mysite.com:myport/.../designer. However, I am challenged to provide a username and password when I navigate to this URL. It looks like a standard Appian log in page, has the Appian logo on it and fields to enter username and password. The problem is that I don't remember setting up any users during the installation process. And any users I thought I had set up I tried with no success. Can someone point me to a document or something that shows me which user to use for the first time (like an admin user)? [For example, Weblogic has the user weblogic that we create when installing.].

Thanks in advance.
Sam....

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0 Steven Miccile
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago

The first time username and password login is described here: forum.appian.com/.../Starting_and_Stopping_Appian
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0 sameerk over 11 years ago

Steven,

Thank you for that pointer. But I forgot to mention that I had tried it without success. For sanity, I tried it again and received "An error occurred while attempting login. Please try again or contact the system administrator." error.

Not sure what might be wrong.
Sam.
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0 song.choe
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over 11 years ago

@Sam. Can you run the checkengine.bat that is in <yourAppianServer>\\server\\_scripts\\diagnostic ? Does all of the output show "Okay"? Please close the browser, reopen and do not copy and paste the password from the forum.
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0 sameerk over 11 years ago

Below is the output:
S U M M A R Y (2013-11-04 19:20:02.902 GMT) S U M M A R Y
_APP_ _ACTIVE_GW_ _STATUS_ _ISSUES_
Discussion Forums 1/1 Okay
Notifications Service 1/1 Okay
Notifications Email Processor 1/1 Okay
Channels 1/1 Okay
Collaboration 1/1 Okay
Collaboration Statistics 1/1 Okay
Personalization 1/1 Okay
Portal 1/1 Okay
Metadata Structure Service 1/1 Okay
Process-Design 1/1 Okay
Process-Analytics0000 1/1 Okay
Process-Analytics0001 1/1 Okay
Process-Analytics0002 1/1 Okay
Process-Exec00 1/1 Okay
Process-Exec01 1/1 Okay
Process-Exec02 1/1 Okay

All Okay.
One thing I noticed in the log file for the Weblogic server is a stack trace saying:
Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: While trying to look up /jdbc/OracleDS in /app/webapp/suite/452209868.; remaining name '/jdbc/OracleDS'
at weblogic.jndi.internal.BasicNamingNode.newNameNotFoundException(BasicNamingNode.java:1180)

As far as I know, that is the JNDI name of my Oracle data source and also configured as such in WebLogic. Also, the same name is used in the Primary Data Source in the custom.properties file. So I don't understand why the Appian ear is unable to connect to the primary data source. Any thoughts?
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0 Patty Isecke
Appian Employee
over 11 years ago

When configuring your data sources IN WEBLOGIC, what is the JNDI name that you've defined? How have you defined the JNDI name in custom.properties?
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0 sameerk over 11 years ago

In Weblogic:
Name: OraclePrimaryDS
JNDI Name: jdbc/OraclePrimaryDS

In the custom.properties file:
conf.data.primary.datasource=java:jdbc/OraclePrimaryDS
And before that, I even tried:
conf.data.primary.datasource=java:/jdbc/OraclePrimaryDS

Same error both times.
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Sam.
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0 sameerk over 11 years ago

Yes, when I test the JDBC connection in Weblogic, it tests fine.
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0 Patty Isecke
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over 11 years ago

Please remove java: from your JNDI names in custom.properties. So you should have conf.data.primary.datasource=jdbc/OraclePrimaryDS
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0 sameerk over 11 years ago

Ah! That seems to have done the trick. Thank you.
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