PQ72588: WINDOWS EVENT APPLICATION LOG SAYS THAT LOCAL COMPUTER MAY NOT HAVE THE NECESSARY REGISTRY/MESSAGE DLL FILES WHEN SERVER STARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() APAR status Closed as program error. Error description Windows EventViewer Application logs shows following message though adminserver started fine and it does all it's functionality successfully : The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Websphere ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: IBM WS AdminServer 4.0 status: 997 WebSphere Administration server is shutting down. Cause: Our native c code does not follow Windows messaging guideline to report an event. Should use message dll and register it in the windows registry. This was fixed on WAS 3.5.5 before but not on WAS 4.0.x and WAS 5. The following are the essentials of the fix. 1.Create registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog \Application\WebSphere "EventMessageFile"="<path and message dll file name>" "TypesSupported"=dword:00000007 2. Create wasmessages.dll 3. Modify all message reporting code in services.c and eventlog.c to use new message reporting mechanism.Local fix No WorkAround .Problem summary **************************************************************** * USERS AFFECTED: WebSphere Application Server Administrators * * using windows event viewer to see the * * application log for WebSphere. * **************************************************************** * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Windows event viewer does display * * description for WebSphere event. * **************************************************************** * RECOMMENDATION: * **************************************************************** Windows EventViewer Application logs shows following message though adminserver started fine and it does all its functionality successfully: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Websphere ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: IBM WS AdminServer 4.0 status: 997 WebSphere Administration server is shutting down. The description is missing because WebSphere did not use windows messaging guideline to report an event.Problem conclusion To display the event description for WebSphere, report event using message dll file.Temporary fix PQ72588_Test.jarComments
APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following: APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following: Modules/Macros
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Document Information |
Product categories: Software > Application Servers >
Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application
Server > General
Operating system(s):
Software version: 400
Software edition:
Reference #: PQ72588
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Jun 13, 2003
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