Post installation of fixpack 21 of WebSphere 8.5 customer is getting below error during the ASA (ver 12.0 SP2) startup:
[5/10/22 15:42:38:799 CEST] 00000001 TrustAssociat E SECJ0384E: Trust Association Init Error. The Trust Association interceptor implementation com.netegrity.siteminder.websphere.auth.SmTrustAssociationInterceptor initialization failed. The error status/exception is java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.ensureError(J9VMInternals.java:145)
at java.lang.J9VMInternals.recordInitializationFailure(J9VMInternals.java:134)
at com.ca.siteminder.sdk.agentapi.ff.a(DashoA10*..)
at netegrity.siteminder.javaagent.di.a(DashoA10*..)
at netegrity.siteminder.javaagent.di.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.netegrity.siteminder.agentcommon.framework.eq.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.netegrity.siteminder.agentcommon.framework.cw.c(DashoA10*..)
at com.netegrity.siteminder.agentcommon.framework.cw.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.netegrity.siteminder.agentcommon.framework.g.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.netegrity.siteminder.asaframework.common.d.<init>(DashoA10*..)
at com.netegrity.siteminder.websphere.auth.SmTrustAssociationInterceptor.initialize(DashoA10*..)
at com.ibm.ws.security.web.TrustAssociationManager.loadInterceptor(TrustAssociationManager.java:497)
at com.ibm.ws.security.web.TrustAssociationManager.initialize(TrustAssociationManager.java:386)
at com.ibm.ws.security.web.TrustAssociationManager.<init>(TrustAssociationManager.java:142)
at com.ibm.ws.security.web.TrustAssociationManager.getInstance(TrustAssociationManager.java:115)
at com.ibm.ws.security.core.distSecurityComponentImpl.initializeSSOTAI(distSecurityComponentImpl.java:1084)
at com.ibm.ws.security.core.distSecurityComponentImpl.initialize(distSecurityComponentImpl.java:400)
at com.ibm.ws.security.core.SecurityComponentImpl.initialize(SecurityComponentImpl.java:94)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerHelper.initWsComponent(ContainerHelper.java:1193)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerHelper.initializeComponent(ContainerHelper.java:1100)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerHelper.initializeComponents(ContainerHelper.java:902)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerImpl.initializeComponents(ContainerImpl.java:776)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ContainerImpl.initializeComponents(ContainerImpl.java:750)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.component.ServerImpl.initialize(ServerImpl.java:370)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServerImpl.bootServerContainer(WsServerImpl.java:307)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServerImpl.start(WsServerImpl.java:238)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServerImpl.main(WsServerImpl.java:711)
at com.ibm.ws.runtime.WsServer.main(WsServer.java:59)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:90)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:508)
at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSLauncher.launchMain(WSLauncher.java:234)
at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSLauncher.main(WSLauncher.java:96)
at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSLauncher.run(WSLauncher.java:77)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:90)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:508)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppContainer.callMethodWithException(EclipseAppContainer.java:587)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:198)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:369)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:90)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:55)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:508)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:340)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:282)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:981)
at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSPreLauncher.launchEclipse(WSPreLauncher.java:425)
at com.ibm.wsspi.bootstrap.WSPreLauncher.main(WSPreLauncher.java:178)
Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: JCE cannot authenticate the provider JsafeJCE
at javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.ca.siteminder.sdk.agentapi.crypto.ew.f(DashoA10*..)
at com.ca.siteminder.sdk.agentapi.crypto.ey.<init>(DashoA10*..)
at com.ca.siteminder.sdk.agentapi.crypto.ew.a(DashoA10*..)
Release : 12 SP2
Component : Application Server Agents for WebSphere
This is known issue and an announcement has been published either to roll back the updates or upgrade the ASA agent to R12.8.
https://community.broadcom.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=fa2b34bb-b160-b145-b0b4-a71a2d674ca3&forceDialog=0
Please refer the PSM's for your reference R12.8 ASA PSM for compatibility of WAS versions.
Customer either has to rollback the changes made to make it working as earlier or they have to upgrade the ASA agent to R12.8 version to fix this issue.