DevTest Portal freezes

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

Every couple of hours the Portal freezes and must be restarted. .

Cause

The Portal internal agent is repeatedly attempting to connect to the Broker.

Environment

All supported DevTest versions and environments

Resolution

The Broker is not accepting connections as indicated by errors the pfbroker log.

Transport failed: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake 
 
Set lisa.net.default.protocol=ssl in local.properties

Also, increasing the Portal memory will help.