OBIEE 11g AdminServer And BI_Server1 Fail To Start And Fail To Read the boot.properties File (Doc ID 1551142.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 18, 2021

Applies to:

Symptoms

While starting the OBIEE 11g technical stack, the AdminServer and / or the Managed Server fail to start with the following errors in the log AdminServer and/or bi_serverX.log:

weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication for user  denied
at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.doBootAuthorization(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:965)
at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.initialize(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:1050)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityServiceManager.initialize(SecurityServiceManager.java:873)
at weblogic.security.SecurityService.start(SecurityService.java:141)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace
Caused By: javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090304]Authentication Failed: User  javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: [Security:090301]Password Not Supplied
at weblogic.security.providers.authentication.LDAPAtnLoginModuleImpl.login(LDAPAtnLoginModuleImpl.java:261)
at com.bea.common.security.internal.service.LoginModuleWrapper$1.run(LoginModuleWrapper.java:110)
at com.bea.common.security.internal.service.LoginModuleWrapper.login(LoginModuleWrapper.java:106)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
Truncated. see log file for complete stacktrace

• nohup /middleware/wlserver_10.3/server/bin/startNodeManager.sh & --> starts fine. No issue

• nohup /middleware/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/startWebLogic.sh & --> No issue.

• nohup /middleware/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/startManagedWebLogic.sh bi_server1 http://adminserverhost:9001 & --> FAILED.

The AdminServer will start fine if supplying clear-text password parameters on the command-line (i.e.- Dweblogic.management.username=myusername -Dweblogic.management.password=mypassword) or environment variables.

It is observed that the boot.properties file is not getting read and encrypted as the parameter values are still in clear text.

Cause

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