Description of problem: When trying to create a new valid Cron Tab resource, a Null Pointer Exception is thrown after clicking submit Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Not sure what commit has this build is. This server was built during sprint 3 (a server in Pune - 10.65.201.165) How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login to rhq server and open a managed platform . 2.Select the cron resource. 3.Select the 'Inventory' tab. 4.Click on 'OK' button to create new cron tab. 5.Enter a resource name(Ex: /etc/cron.d/somefile) 6.Click on 'Add New' button for cron entries section. 7.Enter/Select the minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week, user, and the command to be executed as: 30 10 * * * root echo “This command runs at 10:30 am.” 8.Click on Submit. 9. refresh the page to see the updated "Request Status" of the "History of create child resource requests" table Actual results: The status changes to "Failure" and displays No resource key specified for failed request java.lang.NullPointerException:null The server log has: 2009-12-08 23:05:21,288 INFO [org.rhq.enterprise.server.resource.ResourceFactoryServerServiceImpl] Received create resource response: CreateResourceResponse[RequestId=10123, Status=Failure] The client log has: 2009-12-08 13:45:54,403 INFO [ResourceFactory.executor-1] (rhq.core.pc.inventory.CreateResourceRunner)- Creating resource through report: CreateResourceReport: ResourceType=[ResourceType[id=0, category=Service, name=Cron Tab, plugin=Cron]], ResourceKey=[null] Expected results: successful creation of cron tab Additional info:
Temporarily adding the keyword "SubBug" so we can be sure we have accounted for all the bugs. keyword: new = Tracking + FutureFeature + SubBug
making sure we're not missing any bugs in rhq_triage
Lowering severity/priority - not an enterprise plugin