"In production mode, it's not allowed to set a clear text value to the property: CredentialEncrypted of SecurityConfigurationMBean" (Doc ID 2375834.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 09, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Weblogic Managed Server fails to start. Below error is observed in stdout.
 
<BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: A MultiException has 5 exceptions.  They are:
1. weblogic.management.provider.internal.RuntimeAccessImpl$ParseException: [Management:141266]Parsing failure in config.xml: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: In production mode, it's not allowed to set a clear text value to the property: CredentialEncrypted of SecurityConfigurationMBean.
2. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: create on weblogic.management.provider.internal.RuntimeAccessImpl
3. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: post construct on weblogic.management.provider.internal.RuntimeAccessService
4. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: While attempting to resolve the dependencies of weblogic.t3.srvr.FinalThreadLocalService errors were found
5. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: resolve on weblogic.t3.srvr.FinalThreadLocalService

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Caused By: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: In production mode, it's not allowed to set a clear text value to the property: CredentialEncrypted of SecurityConfigurationMBean
       at weblogic.management.configuration.SecurityConfigurationMBeanImpl.setCredentialEncrypted(SecurityConfigurationMBeanImpl.java:2613)
       at weblogic.management.configuration.SecurityConfigurationMBeanImpl.setCredentialEncryptedAsString(SecurityConfigurationMBeanImpl.java:1171)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
<BEA-000365> <Server state changed to FAILED.>

Cause

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