BEA-099117 The LDAP Authentication Provider Failed to Make Connection at ldaps://HOST:PORT, the Error Cause is: Connection reset (Doc ID 2690349.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 16, 2023

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Symptoms

The WebLogic AdminServer tries to connect to Windows Active Directory via secured Lightweight Directory Access Protocol and Transport (LDAPs) and fails.

On windows the logs show a reset connection is responded for the connection attempt.
And in the WebLogic logfiles the following error is loggged: <Warning> <Security> <BEA-099117> <The LDAP authentication provider named "myldap" failed to make connection to ldap server at ldaps://HOST:PORT, the error cause is: Connection reset.

When trying to list the users from Active Directory via wls-console the following stack trace (error) is output:

 Using a TCP sniffer (Tcpdump utility) it was confirmed that Windows was resetting the connection

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