DUAS: Uprocs Abort with error "Unable to init authentication"

Products

• CA Automic Dollar Universe

Issue/Introduction

After some modifications on a Dollar Universe 6 node ( deployment / modification of Node Settings) all Jobs Abort with the following errors in Job Log:
Unable to init authentication
Error initializing authentication: k_initCmptHandshake returns [-5]

In the universe.log, the following kind errors appear at the same time per Job launched:
|ERROR|e|STA|pid=p.t| k_initCmptHandshake       | Error extracting the local key
|ERROR|e|END|pid=p.t| k_initCmptHandshake       | Error extracting the local key

Environment

Dollar Universe 6.x and 7.x

 

Cause

Wrong definition of the variable S_ESPEXE in the Node Variables ( exp instead of X).
This can be detected via the command line:

[root@hostname bin]# ./uxlst nvar varname=S_ESPEXE
 Commande : uxlst nvar varname=S_ESPEXE

NODE VARIABLE                                                    VALUE
---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
S_ESPEXE                                                         exp

Or via UVC - Node Settings - Node Variables:

Resolution

Remove the definition of the variable S_ESPEXE from the Node Variables.
This can be done via the command line:

[root@hostname bin]# ./uxdlt nvar varname=S_ESPEXE
 Commande : uxdlt nvar varname=S_ESPEXE

Else, you can do it via UVC - Node Settings - Node Variables:
Select the line S_ESPEXE and click on Remove.

Be in mind that S_ESPEXE default value is X (area X), and only authorized values are A,I,S or X.

The variable should only be set via the commmand unisetvar or via UVC - Node Settings - Default Environment: