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ORDS 21.1 database TNS connection works for install but fails on execution

user-npg6fMay 19 2023

Hello.
I'm running ORDS 21.1 in OpenShift 4 with Tomcat and it's having issues when using the TNS connection type. If I use the basic connection type, everything is fine.

This is a snippet of my ords_params.properties file where TNS is configured:

db.connectionType=tns
db.tnsDirectory=/u01/network/admin
db.tnsAliasName=MY_ALIAS

OpenShift is using a BuildConfig to build ORDS from a Dockerfile and the java command in the Dockerfile sets the TNS admin directory:

RUN $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Xmx$JAVA_HEAP_MAX -Doracle.net.tns_admin=/u01/network/admin -jar /u01/ords/ords.war

At this point the TNS connection is working and I can see the following output in the log from running ords.war.

Apologies for not posting complete logs, I have no way to retrieve them from the OpenShift cluster.

2023-05-19T15:53:10.668Z INFO Oracle REST Data Services schema version 21.1.1.r1162032 is installed.

But when it comes to Tomcat starting ORDS, I see connection pool errors in the log:

2023-05-19T15:54:43.956Z WARNING The pool named: |apex|| is invalid and will be ignored: ORDS was unable to make a connection to the database. …… IO Error: Unknown host specified ……
2023-05-19T15:54:43.964Z SEVERE IO Error: Unknown host specified …… |apex|| …… jdbc:oracle:thin:@MY_ALIAS

I've tried the following Tomcat images, with no change in behaviour:

  • tomcat:9.0.20-jre8-alpine
  • 9.0.75-jre11
  • 9.0.75-jdk17

I've also tried opening up the permissions on the tnsnames.ora file and its parent folder structure but that also did not change the behaviour.

RUN chmod 777 /u01 && \
    chmod 777 /u01/network && \
    chmod 777 /u01/network/admin && \
    chmod 777 /u01/network/admin/tnsnames.ora

Like I said, if I switch to basic everything works fine, so I'm fairly convinced it's an issue with my ORDS configuration.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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