NPE: Node Manager

Working with WLS 10.3.5 and trying to start Node Manager (NM) using a script startNodeManager.cmd (yes, windows).

The following error was thrown:

Node manager v10.3





Configuration settings:



NodeManagerHome=C:\oracle\wls1035\WLSERV~1.3\common\NODEMA~1

ListenAddress=

ListenPort=5546

ListenBacklog=50

SecureListener=true

AuthenticationEnabled=true

NativeVersionEnabled=true

CrashRecoveryEnabled=false

JavaHome=C:\oracle\wls1035\JDK160~1\jre

StartScriptEnabled=false

StopScriptEnabled=false

StartScriptName=startWebLogic.cmd

StopScriptName=

LogFile=C:\oracle\wls1035\WLSERV~1.3\common\NODEMA~1\nodemanager.log

LogLevel=INFO

LogLimit=0

LogCount=1

LogAppend=true

LogToStderr=true

LogFormatter=weblogic.nodemanager.server.LogFormatter

DomainsFile=C:\oracle\wls1035\WLSERV~1.3\common\NODEMA~1\nodemanager.domains

DomainsFileEnabled=true

StateCheckInterval=500

  java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Hashtable.containsKey(Hashtable.java:314)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.initNetworkInfoList(NMServerConfig.java:491)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.getNetworkInfoList(NMServerConfig.java:481)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.print(NMServerConfig.java:599)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.print(NMServerConfig.java:561)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServer.(NMServer.java:166)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServer.main(NMServer.java:375)
        at weblogic.NodeManager.main(NodeManager.java:31)Sep 25, 2012 12:13:20 PM weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServer mainSEVERE: Fatal error in node manager serverjava.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Hashtable.containsKey(Hashtable.java:314)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.initNetworkInfoList(NMServerConfig.java:491)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.getNetworkInfoList(NMServerConfig.java:481)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.print(NMServerConfig.java:599)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServerConfig.print(NMServerConfig.java:561)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServer.(NMServer.java:166)
        at weblogic.nodemanager.server.NMServer.main(NMServer.java:375)
        at weblogic.NodeManager.main(NodeManager.java:31)



goto finish

ENDLOCAL

This can be fixed by applying patch 12564602