Hello Bhavanam:
Thank you for your reply.
I checked with networking team, and persistence is set.
When i ping each tomcat server individually it resolves with an individual IP without an issue. When I ping the VIP alias, it resolves a unique ip address (as expected from a VIP alias), and then times out immediately after.
This issue, really is that If I login from either of the servers directly, I can get into the boe/cmc without an issue. but with the VIP alias, it throws the nullpointer exception..
Please advise.