Default tdiserver Will Not Launch

Yesterday I was working with a fresh install of Tivoli Directory Integrator 7.0 Fix Pack 5 (the required version for IBM Connections), every time I tried to run an assembly line I was faced with this message

Looking at the log I saw this error ‘api.remote.naming.port’ : ‘1099null’

Searching around I find suggestions to check the Default.tdiserver file in the Workspace directory, but the value there looked correct.

Finally I found this entry in the Lotus Connections Wiki, which contained this information

“Tivoli Directory Integrator Configuration Editor port issue: If you see the message "Invalid value specified for ‘api.remote.naming.port’ " when working with the Tivoli Directory Integrator Configuration Editor, you can resolve the issue by manually setting the api.remote.naming.port in the solution.properties file located in the <TDI_solution _directory>.”

Sure enough when I looked in my solution.propertied I found the bad entry

Once I removed the ‘null’ appended to the port and restarted TDI, the default server started right up