OBIEE 12c - Changing 'weblogic' admin user password: bi_server1 fails - Authentication denied: Boot

User_DZGYI

Updated the weblogic admin user password following instructions in "OBIEE 12C - How to Change 'Weblogic' User Password in OBIEE 12c Environment (Doc ID 2147135.1)"

BI_SErver1 failed to restart with error message

####<Jun 22, 2020, 4:42:24,314 PM CDT> <Critical> <WebLogicServer> <obietst.pacebus.com> <bi_server1> <main> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <196daabd-439c-4b99-ad77-108b414a8ad5-00000003> <1592862144314> <[severity-value: 4] [rid: 0] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN] > <BEA-000386> <Server subsystem failed. Reason: A MultiException has 4 exceptions.  They are:

1. weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: Authentication denied: Boot identity not valid. The user name or password or both from the boot identity file (boot.properties) is not valid. The boot identity may have been changed since the boot identity file was created. Please edit and update the boot identity file with the proper values of username and password. The first time the updated boot identity file is used to start the server, these new values are encrypted.

2. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: post construct on weblogic.security.SecurityService

3. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: While attempting to resolve the dependencies of weblogic.nodemanager.adminserver.NodeManagerMonitorService errors were found

4. java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to perform operation: resolve on weblogic.nodemanager.adminserver.NodeManagerMonitorService

While researching the error I have come across these two conflicting documents that describe different methods of updating the boot.properties file:

     OBIEE 12c: After Weblogic Admin <PASSWORD> Changed Error Occurred: "Authentication denied Boot identity not valid" (Doc ID 2650671.1)

and

     https://oracle-base.com/articles/11g/reset-the-adminserver-password-in-weblogic-11g-and-12c

Can anyone advise which document is correct?

Gianni Ceresa

Weblogic is supposed to encrypt the password the first time it will open the boot.properties file. Try the "simple" one first, just replace the content of the boot.properties file (they are maybe 2, just check the folders searching for those files and check what they have inside and update all the required one).

Enter your password in clear and when you start your system, if all works fine, check the files again to validate the encryption happened.

So start with the oracle-base.com way of doing things. If it doesn't work follow the MOS document which give you the encrypted version of the password.

User_NPL69

I am also facing the same issue after following the same document Doc ID 2147135.1. Kindly help how to set boot.properties for bi_server