Missing substitution value for variable [dispatcher.host]

[Former Member]

Hello,

I'm getting the error message "com.sap.engine.deploy.manager.MissingSubstitutionException: Missing substitution value for variable [dispatcher.host]." if I'm trying to deploy an SCA file via SDM (remotegui.bat).

It seems that the problem is a missing variable setting. But I couldn't find any hints at the available SAP web sources which values needs to be set.

It would be really great if somebody could give me a hint which steps I need to do to solve this issue.

Many thanks in advance,

Steffen Zimmermann

Here is the whole GUI log :

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08/11/26 21:31:15 - ***********************************************************

08/11/26 21:31:35 - Start updating EAR file...

08/11/26 21:31:35 - start-up mode is lazy

08/11/26 21:32:45 - com.sap.engine.deploy.manager.MissingSubstitutionException: Missing substitution value for variable [dispatcher.host].

at com.sap.engine.deploy.manager.DeployManagerImpl.makeTempEar(DeployManagerImpl.java:3747)

at com.sap.engine.deploy.manager.DeployManagerImpl.makeNewEar1(DeployManagerImpl.java:3715)

at com.sap.engine.deploy.manager.DeployManagerImpl.deployUpdateAction(DeployManagerImpl.java:529)

at com.sap.engine.deploy.manager.DeployManagerImpl.deploy(DeployManagerImpl.java:513)

at com.sap.sdm.serverext.servertype.inqmy.extern.EngineApplOnlineDeployerImpl.performDeployment(EngineApplOnlineDeployerImpl.java:186)

at com.sap.sdm.serverext.servertype.inqmy.extern.EngineDeployerImpl.deploy(EngineDeployerImpl.java:96)

at com.sap.sdm.serverext.servertype.inqmy.EngineProcessor.executeAction(EngineProcessor.java:224)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.impl.PhysicalDeploymentActionExecutor.execute(PhysicalDeploymentActionExecutor.java:60)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.impl.DeploymentActionImpl.execute(DeploymentActionImpl.java:186)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.controllers.internal.impl.DeploymentExecutorImpl.execute(DeploymentExecutorImpl.java:48)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.states.eventhandler.ExecuteDeploymentHandler.executeAction(ExecuteDeploymentHandler.java:83)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.states.eventhandler.ExecuteDeploymentHandler.handleEvent(ExecuteDeploymentHandler.java:60)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.states.StateBeforeNextDeployment.processEvent(StateBeforeNextDeployment.java:127)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.states.InstContext.processEventServerSide(InstContext.java:73)

at com.sap.sdm.app.proc.deployment.states.InstContext.processEvent(InstContext.java:59)

at com.sap.sdm.app.view.controllers.DeployEventProcessor.processEvent(DeployEventProcessor.java:11)

at com.sap.sdm.client_server.deployserver.DeployCmdProcessor.processEvent(DeployCmdProcessor.java:264)

at com.sap.sdm.client_server.deployserver.DeployCmdProcessor.process(DeployCmdProcessor.java:108)

at com.sap.sdm.gui.server.GuiAdminRoleCmdProcessor.process(GuiAdminRoleCmdProcessor.java:72)

at com.sap.sdm.is.cs.session.server.SessionCmdProcessor.process(SessionCmdProcessor.java:67)

at com.sap.sdm.is.cs.cmd.server.CmdServer.execCommand(CmdServer.java:76)

at com.sap.sdm.client_server.launch.ServerLauncher$ConnectionHandlerImpl.handle(ServerLauncher.java:286)

at com.sap.sdm.is.cs.ncserver.NetCommServer.serve(NetCommServer.java:43)

at com.sap.sdm.is.cs.ncwrapper.impl.ServiceWrapper.serve(ServiceWrapper.java:39)

at com.sap.bc.cts.tp.net.Worker.run(Worker.java:50)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)

08/11/26 21:32:45 - ***********************************************************

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:45 PM Info: End of log messages of the target system.

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:45 PM Info: ***** End of SAP J2EE Engine Deployment (J2EE Application) *****

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:45 PM Error: Aborted: development component 'Cognos8BI'/'cognos.com'/'Cog8BIFactory'/'1'/'1', grouped by software component 'Cognos8BI'/'cognos.com'/'Cog8BIFactory'/'1000.8.4.1.0.20081125093532''/'0':

Caught exception during application deployment from SAP J2EE Engine's deploy API:

com.sap.engine.deploy.manager.MissingSubstitutionException: Missing substitution value for variable [dispatcher.host].

(message ID: com.sap.sdm.serverext.servertype.inqmy.extern.EngineApplOnlineDeployerImpl.performAction(DeploymentActionTypes).DMEXC)

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:45 PM Info: Starting to save the repository

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:49 PM Info: Finished saving the repository

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:51 PM Info: Starting: Initial deployment: Selected software component 'Cognos8BI'/'cognos.com'/'Cog8BIFactory'/'1000.8.4.1.0.20081125093532''/'0' will be deployed.

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:51 PM Error: Aborted: software component 'Cognos8BI'/'cognos.com'/'Cog8BIFactory'/'1000.8.4.1.0.20081125093532''/'0':

Failed deployment of SDAs:

development component 'Cognos8BI'/'cognos.com'/'Cog8BIFactory'/'1'/'1' : aborted

Please, look at error logs above for more information!

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:51 PM Info: Starting to save the repository

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:52 PM Info: Finished saving the repository

Nov 26, 2008 9:32:53 PM Info: J2EE Engine is in same state (online/offline) as it has been before this deployment process.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This is not a regular substitution variable. Check the documentation of this Cognos component. It should tell you what to configure before starting the deployment.

[Former Member]

Thank you.

Yes, it was a really not a default variable.

Replacement of the variables directly at the archive with the correct value did solve the issue.