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How Connect TDWC 9.3 to TWS Engine lower level release

Troubleshooting


Problem

DWC 9.3 users cannot connect to TWS Engine lower level releases (8.5.1 until 9.2)

Symptom

Unable to connect to TWS 8.5.1 ,8.6 or 9.1/9.2 from DWC 9.3.


Check the WAS SystemOut.log for error :

SSL0080E: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException - The client and server could not negotiate the desired level of security. Reason: Server chose SSLv3,
but that protocol version is not enabled or not supported by the client. javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Server chose SSLv3, but that protocol version is not enabled or not supported by the client.

Cause

DWC 9.3 is packaged with WAS 8.5.5.4 and due to known vulnerabilities has SSLV3 disabled. However TWS 9.2 and earlier versions use SSLv3 by default and so the DWC 9.3 cannot connect

Resolving The Problem

You can solve this problem by configuring your TWS engines to use TLS instead of SSL :

Backup and edit :

TWA_HOME/WAS/TWSProfile/config/cells/TWSNodeCell/security.xml

Find sslProtocol and change "SSL_TLS" to "TLS"

Find ssl.protocol and change value="SSL" to value="TLS"

Backup and edit :

TWA_HOME/WAS/TWSProfile/properties/ssl.client.props

Find com.ibm.ssl.protocol=SSL and change to com.ibm.ssl.protocol=TLS

Backup and edit :

TWA_HOME/WAS/TWSProfile/temp/ssl.client.props

Find com.ibm.ssl.protocol=SSL and change to com.ibm.ssl.protocol=TLS

Stop and restart WAS.

*Be aware that your Engines are now using TLS and so you must also reconfigure any DWC 9.2 or 9.1 installations that need to connect to those engines. You would change them to use TLS in the same way as above but also by the same changes in these copies of security.xml and ssl.client.props :

TWA_HOME/JazzSM/profile/config/cells/JazzSMNode01Cell/security.xml

TWA_HOME/JazzSM/profile/properties/ssl.client.props

TWA_HOME/JazzSM/profile/temp/ssl.client.props

Please consider that since you configure with TLS the WAS of TWS Engine also the Dynamic Agent can be impacted.

See technote 1689332.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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