How to troubleshoot an ERROR: Unable to connect to host http://localhost:4444/wd/hub. Contact EPSM. Message: Could not initialize class sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection we received in application monitoring application for SharePoint Server?

Bajracharya, Prabinesh 417 Reputation points
2022-05-04T15:01:54.11+00:00

We have an application monitoring application called Nagios XI in our organization and recently we received an alert - ** PROBLEM Service Alert: <domain>/prod: user: auth: https_<domain> is UNKNOWN** with an ERROR: Unable to connect to host http://localhost:4444/wd/hub. Contact EPSM. Message: Could not initialize class sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection

The error message came at 12:19 PM on Monday and then at 12:57 got another alert notifying a RECOVERY.
RECOVERY: Closed session and quit window

In order to find the root cause of this issue, we have looked at the Event Logs and SharePoint Logs (Verbose) to find any reference for http://localhost:4444/wd/hub and class sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection but with no luck.

Ideas?

Regards,
Prabinesh

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  1. Limitless Technology 39,351 Reputation points
    2022-05-05T07:25:50.217+00:00

    Hello,

    Thanks for reaching out.

    wd is the short form of WebDriver
    hub refers to Selenium Grid configuration where the two components are:

    Selenium Grid Hub (is commonly termed as hub)

    Selenium Grid Node (is commonly termed as node)

    wd/hub is the part of the uri through which the node communicates with the hub

    Hence to troubleshoot more I would suggest you to check Selenium Gird logs from application folder.

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  2. Bajracharya, Prabinesh 417 Reputation points
    2022-05-06T12:52:40.457+00:00

    Found the answer for my own question from our application monitoring team.

    "This is an older synthetic transaction and there are times that the check fails for an unknown reason. Normally, the error clears on the next check, but in this case it did not until Selenium services were restarted.
    When you see Unable to connect to host http://localhost:4444/wd/hub, that is a Nagios/Selenium issue, not a service issue."

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  3. Yi Lu_MSFT 17,456 Reputation points
    2022-05-13T10:05:07.177+00:00

    Hi @Anonymous
    According to the information you provided and is related to 3rd tool, this issue seems not suitable for discussion in our forums, I would suggest you to open a ticket or go to other related forums for further support.

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