WebSphere 7 SSL error that never goes away no matter what I do?

Question

I installed WebSphere 7.0 and RAD 7.5. Updated WAS to fix pack 11 and update RAD. 7.5.5. latest updates..etc...

• I create a server profile.
• I start the server.
• I turn on global security and use LDAP. (something I have done a billion times)
• I don't even attempt to publish an application.
• The server constantly debugs out this message every two minutes.

How do you make it stop? I have tried making new keys doesn't work, I blow away the profile and make a new one. Nothing works. Nothing. The server is running at 400 MB without an application installed. Is this supposed to be normal? 400 MB with no app published?

The server profile creation wizard forces this SSL nonsense into the config.

What's really going on here?

I would love to utilize the latest server technology IBM has to offer but it seems to be broken right out of the box, out of the gate. 5 fix packs later and it's still broken.

[8/25/10 8:12:44:896 CDT] 0000000b SSLHandshakeE E   SSLC0008E: Unable to initialize SSL connection.  Unauthorized access was denied or security settings have expired.  Exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
 at com.ibm.jsse2.b.a(b.java:34)
 at com.ibm.jsse2.pc.a(pc.java:155)
 at com.ibm.jsse2.pc.unwrap(pc.java:104)
 at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(SSLEngine.java:17)
 at com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLConnectionLink.readyInbound(SSLConnectionLink.java:531)
 at com.ibm.ws.ssl.channel.impl.SSLConnectionLink.ready(SSLConnectionLink.java:291)
 at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.sendToDiscriminators(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:214)
 at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.complete(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:113)
 at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:165)
 at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
 at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture.fireCompletionActions(AsyncChannelFuture.java:161)
 at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncFuture.completed(AsyncFuture.java:138)
 at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.complete(ResultHandler.java:204)
 at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler.runEventProcessingLoop(ResultHandler.java:775)
 at com.ibm.io.async.ResultHandler$2.run(ResultHandler.java:905)
 at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1550)

Answer 1

Its too late but may be it helps others like me :)

Agree with Peter above, its IDE which checks status from server..

You need to add the certificate 'X' i.e. exportedCertificate.cer to JRE keystore. To do this, run this command in a Windows CMD window:

$ keytool -import -file exportedCertificate.cer -storepass changeit -keystore %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/security/cacerts -alias myAlias

Certificate 'X' is the default certificate in your Websphere server. You can find and export it through IBM console. Alternative is to hit HTTPS url at browser and export it from browser in DER format.