The Virus Definition Date is blank in the SPE console

Products

• Protection Engine for NAS
• Protection Engine for Cloud Services

Issue/Introduction

The Virus Definition date for the Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) listed in the SPE Console shows as blank after upgrading to version 9.2.  The report.xml, however, confirms that the virus definitions are up to date.  Reviewing the Rest API debug logs show entries similar to the following:

INFO  symantec.spe.sperestapi.SpeRestApiApplication:55 - Starting SpeRestApiApplication v9.1.0.18 using Java 17.0.15 on <SPE_SERVER> with PID #### (<SPE_INSTALL_FOLDER>\RestAPI\sperestapi.jar started by <USERNAME> in <SPE_INSTALL_FOLDER>\RestAPI)
...
[https-jsse-nio-8008-exec-2] INFO  symantec.spe.helper.XMLReaderWriter:158 - reading Attribute: /report/DefinitionDateTimeVersion/AntiVirus/@version
[https-jsse-nio-8008-exec-2] DEBUG symantec.spe.helper.XMLReaderWriter:164 - /report/DefinitionDateTimeVersion/AntiVirus/@version: 

Environment

SPE and SPE Console 9.2

Cause

In SPE 9.2 the virus definitions date are reported as DefinitionDateVersion.  Prior versions report the virus definitions date as DefinitionDateTimeVersion.  After upgrade the sperestapi.jar file was replaced with the sperestapi.jar from a previous version of SPE.

Resolution

Revert the sperestapi.jar back to the 9.2 version or, if the sperestapi.jar is not available, re-install the SPE.