Error: FWS initialization FAILED. Not processing any requests in WAOP

Products

• CA Single Sign On Agents (SiteMinder)
• SITEMINDER
• CA Single Sign On Federation (SiteMinder)

Issue/Introduction

 

Running Web Agent Option Pack, this one reports the following error along with the bad version of the software, which should be 12.52SP1CR11 instead of 12.52SP1CR05:

affwebserv:

[93442/3170318080][Thu Dec 01 2022 15:40:20][agentcommon][INFO][sm-FedClient-00010] SiteMinder Product Details: PRODUCT_UPDATE=0105 , PRODUCT_NAME=Federation Web Services, PRODUCT_LABEL=2112, PRODUCT_VERSION=12.52.

[93442/1263486720][Fri Dec 02 2022 12:32:02][FWSBase.java][ERROR][sm-FedClient-00350] FWS initialization FAILED.  Not processing any requests. ()

This occurs after upgrading the Web Agent Option Pack from 12.52SP1CR05 to 12.52SP1CR11.

 

Resolution

 

Recompile the affwebservices as per documentation (1) to solve this issue.

 

Additional Information

 

(1)

    Deploy the FWS Application on JBoss or Tomcat

      Follow these steps:
      
      1. Open a command window and navigate to the affwebservices directory, which is located in:

         /webagent_option_pack/affwebservices/.

      2. Create a WAR file by entering the command:

         jar cvf affwebservices.war *

      3. Copy the affwebservices.war file to the appropriate server location:

         Tomcat
         Tomcat_home/webapps
         Tomcat_home is the installed location of the Tomcat application server.