Remote Agent Classloading doesn't work on Bamboo 3.3
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Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.
*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
When starting an remote agent, remote classloading fails with:
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INFO | jvm 1 | 2011/11/01 20:02:23 | 1016 [WrapperSimpleAppMain] INFO com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.ClasspathBuilder - Downl oading resource: https://bamboo.xxx.xxx.com/agentServer/classpath.zip?fingerprint=4758231839297992994 INFO | jvm 1 | 2011/11/01 20:02:23 | Exiting due to fatal exception. INFO | jvm 1 | 2011/11/01 20:02:23 | com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.RemoteAgentHttpException: HTTP status code 404 received in response to Could not retrieve 'classpath.zip'.
INFO | jvm 1 | 2011/11/01 20:02:23 | at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.ClasspathBuilder.getRemoteResources(ClasspathBuilder.java:126)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2011/11/01 20:02:23 | at com.atlassian.bamboo.agent.bootstrap.ClasspathBuilder.build(ClasspathBuilder.java:62)
Resolution
The issue occurs when running Bamboo in Tomcat and you have the unpackWARs set to false in the Tomcat Deployment descriptor.
To resolve the issue set unpackWARs=true and restart your Tomcat Server
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