Steps to remove the log4j.jar from Web Agent Option Pack(WAOP)

Products

• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

This KB includes the instructions on how to remove log4j.jar from Web Agent Option Pack (WAOP) since it is not used by the Federation Web Services 

Environment

WAOP 12.52.x

Resolution

There are 2 options to remove the log4j.jar from Web Agent Option Pack(WAOP) as follows:

OPTION1: In case of existing Deployment of affwebservices.

1. Stop the running affwebservices (WAOP) application from its deployment.
2. Navigate to affwebservices/WEB-INF/lib
3. Find log4j.jar and remove it.
4. Start the affwebservices application.
5. Make sure http://fqhn:port_number/affwebservices/assertionretriever  is working fine.

For example:

http://myhost.ca.com:81/affwebservices/assertionretriever
If FWS/affwebservices  is operating correctly, the following message is displayed:

Assertion Retrieval Service has been successfully initialized.
The requested servlet accepts only HTTP POST requests.

OPTION2: In the case of new deployments of affwebservices.

1.      Stop the running affwebservices (WAOP) application from its deployment.
2.      Un-Deploy the affwebservices application from the deployment.
3.      Navigate to affwebservices folder that came with the installation of WAOP.
4.      Go to affwebservices/WEB-INF/lib
5.      Find log4j.jar and remove it.
6.      Re-Create the affwebservices.war file as per WAOP documentation.
7.      Deploy the affwebservices application to the location from where you have un-deployed at step 2.
8.      Start the affwebservices application according to the deployed server.
9.      Make sure http://fqhn:port_number/affwebservices/assertionretriever  is working fine

For example:

http://myhost.ca.com:81/affwebservices/assertionretriever
If FWS/affwebservices  is operating correctly, the following message is displayed:

Assertion Retrieval Service has been successfully initialized.
The requested servlet accepts only HTTP POST requests.