Tomcat 9/Java 11 - Unable to enable browser agent
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Tomcat 9/Java 11 - Unable to enable browser agent

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Article ID: 198268

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Products

CA Application Performance Management Agent (APM / Wily / Introscope) CA Application Performance Management (APM / Wily / Introscope) INTROSCOPE DX Application Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

Not seeing the browser agent starting due to this error. 

 [ERROR] [IntroscopeAgent.BrowserAgent] SecurityException: 
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission" "suppressAccessChecks")
    at java.base/java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:472)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:895)
    at java.base/java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:322)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.AccessibleObject.checkPermission(AccessibleObject.java:83)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.setAccessible(Method.java:191)
    at com.wily.introscope.agent.brtm.wrapper.BrtmWrapperFactory.callSameMethodWithWrapperResponse(BrtmWrapperFactory.java:102)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor37.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at com.wily.introscope.agent.brtm.trace.common.PPAbstractTracer.invokeReturnsBoolean(PPAbstractTracer.java:272)
    at com.wily.introscope.agent.brtm.trace.BrtmTracer.callSameMethodWithWrapperResponse(BrtmTracer.java:812)
    at com.wily.introscope.agent.brtm.trace.BrtmTracer.processAppRequest(BrtmTracer.java:436)
    at com.wily.introscope.agent.brtm.trace.BrtmTracer.ITracer_startTrace(BrtmTracer.java:383)
    at com.wily.introscope.agent.trace.InvocationData.IMethodTracer_startTrace(InvocationData.java:1388)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java)
    at org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.service(DefaultServlet.java:434)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:741)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor41.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:282)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:279)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.base/javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:550)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:314)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:170)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:225)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:47)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:149)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:145)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:144)
    at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor40.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:282)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:279)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.base/javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:550)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:314)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:253)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:191)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:47)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:149)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:145)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:144)
    at org.apache.catalina.filters.HttpHeaderSecurityFilter.doFilter(HttpHeaderSecurityFilter.java:126)
    at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor40.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:282)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:279)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.base/javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:550)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:314)
    at org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:253)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:191)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:47)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:149)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:145)
    at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:144)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:199)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:490)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:668)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:408)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:834)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1417)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)

Environment

Release : 11.1.0

Component : APM Agents

Tomcat 9, SDK 11, APM 11.1

Cause

Java Security is not defined. 

Resolution

Add this to your security policy file (catalina.policy):

// [ERROR] [IntroscopeAgent.BrowserAgent] SecurityException: 
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission" "suppressAccessChecks")

grant codeBase "file:/opt/wily/-" {
        permission java.security.AllPermission;
}; 

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