JBAS012144 The controller is not available at localhost:9999

JBAS012144 The controller is not available at localhost:9999: java.net.ConnectException: JBAS012144: Could not connect to remote://localhost:9999. The connection timed out: JBAS012144: Could not connect to remote://localhost:9999. The connection timed out.

Above error message pops up while accessing Wildfly v8.2 CLI commands. Below screenshot with exceptions were occuring even when tried with –connect option.

1. Navigate to Wildfly bin directory and issue,

./jobss-cli.sh

2. Navigate to Wildfly bin directory and issue,

./jobss-cli.sh –connect

JBAS012144 The controller is not available at localhost:9999

Exception is,

org.jboss.as.cli.CliInitializationException: Failed to connect to the controller
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CliLauncher.initCommandContext(CliLauncher.java:278)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CliLauncher.main(CliLauncher.java:253)
at org.jboss.as.cli.CommandLineMain.main(CommandLineMain.java:34)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.jboss.modules.Module.run(Module.java:312)
at org.jboss.modules.Main.main(Main.java:460)
Caused by: org.jboss.as.cli.CommandLineException: The controller is not available at localhost:9990
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CommandContextImpl.tryConnection(CommandContextImpl.java:1028)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CommandContextImpl.connectController(CommandContextImpl.java:840)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CommandContextImpl.connectController(CommandContextImpl.java:819)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CliLauncher.initCommandContext(CliLauncher.java:276)
… 8 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.net.ConnectException: JBAS012174: Could not connect to http-remoting://localhost:9990. The connection failed