Schlagwort-Archive: SSLv3

Sametime 9.0 Upgrade (poodle patch) of System Console fails

IBM announced new updates of Sametime because of SSLv3 vulnerability (PODDLE) for all Sametime comoponents on february this year

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in SSLv3 affects Sametime (CVE-2014-3566)

After two month of upgrading today i got this strange error if i try to upgrade the Sametime System Console.

„A problem occurred during the execution of the ….WebSphere\STSCCell\build_meeting.xml file“

Analyzing the xml file (build_meeting.xml) there was a problem starting the application server STConsoleServer within the upgrade phase.
So i checked if there are problems with the registered os services to start – but this was not the problem (upgrade also failed). Looking inside the application server configuration i found out that the application server was  set to have dependencies with its nodeagent (monitoring policy = RUNNING).

So therefore the upgrade fails because of waiting for the nodeagent to start. You need – only for the upgrade process – to set the setting from RUNNING to STOPPED.

There is an IBM technote with a little more information about this setting.

Using the Monitoring Policy to automate the server startup may interfere with Application updates