After upgrade web sphere from version 6 to 8.5 agent is unable to connect to Application server

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

After upgrade web sphere from version 6 to 8.5 agent is unable to connect to Application server

Environment

Release: AOATAM99000-9.0-Automic-One Automation Tools-Application Manager
Component:

Resolution

Symptoms

After upgrade websphere servers from version 6 to websphere 8.5, agent is unable to connect to application server 

Error message in the job:

The connection to the MBean Server could not be established: java.io.IOException: ADMC0016E: The system cannot create a SOAP connector to connect to host

Error message in the agent trace file:

Caused by: com.ibm.websphere.management.exception.ConnectorNotAvailableException: [SOAPException: faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Client; msg=Error opening socket: java.io.IOException: Exception during sslSocket.startHandshake: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty; targetException=java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error opening socket: java.io.IOException: Exception during sslSocket.startHandshake: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty]

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Cause by the default setting of agent

in the INI file of the Agent: 

20140225/152821.296 - [WEBSPHERE] 

20140225/152821.296 - javax.net.ssl.trustStore=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Custom01/config/cells/PRDcell02/trust.p12 

20140225/152821.296 - javax.net.ssl.keyStore=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Custom01/config/cells/PRDcell02/key.p12 

20140225/152821.296 - javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType=PKCS12 

20140225/152821.296 - soapTimeout=43200 

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Resolution

Since WebSphere version 7 and higher the values for javax.net.ssl.trustStore and javax.net.ssl.keyStore should be removed if the Agent is deployed as a web application. 

The Agent does not use the value javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType therefore this entry should also be removed.

and section of WEBSPHERE should have the following information

[WEBSPHERE] 

soapTimeout=43200 

It is  also important to use the value "websphere_soap" in the field "Initial Context Factory" of the Job.