Unable to start an Agent: java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException: signed fields invalid

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

During start of an Agent below error message appears:

20220531/144755.759 - U02000376 Could not parse certificate 'E:\Automic21\Agents\SAP\bin\security\alias'. Please make sure that the certificate is in PEM format.
20220531/144755.759 - java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException: signed fields invalid
20220531/144756.165 - U02000385 Web socket error: 'PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target'.
20220531/144756.165 - javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
20220531/144756.165 - Caused by sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
20220531/144756.165 - Caused by sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Environment

Release : 21.x

Component : Automic Workload Automation

Cause

Not compatible Java version used

Resolution

Use a compatible Java version.

See:

Compatibility Matrix