Exadata CELL-01514: Connect Error. Verify that Management Server is listening at the specified HTTP port: 8888

Hi,

You can get ” CELL-01514: Connect Error. Verify that Management Server is listening at the specified HTTP port: 8888 ” error during the Exadata Cell server check.

 

When you check physical disk of Exadata storage server then you may encounter following error.

[root@deveciceladm02 ~]# cellcli -e list physicaldisk detail

CELL-01514: Connect Error. Verify that Management Server is listening at the specified HTTP port: 8888.[root@deveciceladm02 ~]#

 

If you got this error, Cell server is not running actually like following, so you need to solve this problem immediately.

[root@deveciceladm02 ~]# cellcli -e list cell detail

CELL-01514: Connect Error. Verify that Management Server is listening at the specified HTTP port: 8888.
cellsrvStatus: unknown
msStatus: unknown
rsStatus: stopped
[root@deveciceladm02 ~]#



[root@deveciceladm02 ~]# service celld status
rsStatus: stopped
msStatus: unknown
cellsrvStatus: unknown
[root@deveciceladm02 ~]# 
[root@deveciceladm02 ~]#

 

 

 

To solve this problem, you need to start cell daemon like following.

[root@deveciceladm02 ~]# service celld start
1: ERROR: Resource temporarily unavailable
rds-ping failed on 192.168.23.17
1: ERROR: Resource temporarily unavailable
rds-ping failed on 192.168.23.16
1: 90 usec
1: 134 usec

Starting the RS, CELLSRV, and MS services...
Getting the state of RS services... running
Starting CELLSRV services...
The STARTUP of CELLSRV services was successful.
Starting MS services...
The STARTUP of MS services was successful.
[root@deveciceladm02 ~]# 
[root@deveciceladm02 ~]#

 

Cell server daemon was started successful. You can check its status again like following.

[root@deveciceladm02 ~]# service celld status
rsStatus: running
msStatus: running
cellsrvStatus: running
[root@deveciceladm02 ~]#