Help yourself or the bugtracking in WebSphere products for Dummies (Part 3)

 "Revenons a nos moutons..."

There is a bug in BPM 7.5.1.
It is looking as (in SystemOut.log):

[3/7/13 15:14:50:193 MSK] 0000003d servlet       E com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper service SRVE0068E: Uncaught exception created in one of the service methods of the servlet AssetDownload in application IBM_BPM_Teamworks_BPMAPS.AppTarget. Exception created : com.lombardisoftware.core.TeamWorksRuntimeException: com.lombardisoftware.client.delegate.BusinessDelegateException: Snapshot.3360e049-5350-4d8c-8f7f-b5043046186b

Caused by: com.lombardisoftware.client.persistence.common.ObjectNotFoundException: Snapshot.3360e049-5350-4d8c-8f7f-b5043046186b

It means that some snapshot does not exist.

How to disable BPM's internal repository

The best practice is not using of internal repository of users in BPM's production environment.

How to do this?
Very simply.

Step by step solution of java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Certificate chaining error seen with IBM Business Process Manager v8

Recently I have solved one issue.

It looked as (SystemOut.log):

Caused by: com.lombardisoftware.core.TeamWorksException: com.ibm.jsse2.util.h: PKIX path building failed: java.security.cert.CertPathBuilderException: PKIXCertPathBuilderImpl could not build a valid CertPath.; internal cause is:

java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: The certificate issued by OU=..., O=..., O=domain, C=ru is not trusted; internal cause is:

java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Certificate chaining error

 

And visually I could not open Process Inspector through https, for example.

How to disable WAS security quickly

There are a lot of situations in the work when you need disable WAS security.

How to start an installation of BPM 7.5 using launchpad.sh in Linux/Unix?

During installation of BPM 7.5 using launchpad.sh you can get this error:

cp: cannot stat `/distrib/BPM75/launchpad/lib': No such file or directory

How to change a standard teamworks message?

Example, you want to change this message:

The task you tried to start is owned by another user. Press the "Close" button to close this screen and return to the task list.

How to backup all your IBM BPM Process Applications?

As we know, "all sysadmins are divided into those who make backups and those who ALREADY make".

Recently I have been an eyewitness of an accident what reminded me this phrase. 12 of BPM servers were lost in one moment.

By the way, versions of BPM 7.5 and later permit to export snapshots of Process Applications using WAS wsadmin commands.