Jetty AWI with ssenabled won't start | jTrailing char < > at index

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• CA Automic One Automation

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to start the AWI with the jetty launcher bundle, the AWI does not stay started.  The log file (found in [Full path to WebInterface]/osgi-tmp/0) shows something like the following:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.nio.file.invalidPathException: Trailing char < > at index 26: C:\automic\cert\keystore 

 

Environment

Version 21.0
AWI: Jetty launcher bundle

Cause

Extra character at the end of the https.keystore.filename= setting in the configuration.properties file.  

Resolution

Open the configuration.properties in a text editor like notepad and look for extra characters.  For example, the following shows that there could be a space at the end of this line:

The entries between < and > in the error message show what the invalid character(s) is.