WAS 5: Adding keys to com.ibm.ejs.resources.seriousMessages TraceNLS?

Question

In my servlet's init method I'm loading a configuration file. If the configuration file cannot be found (or is fubared), I throw an UnavailableException with a description of the problem and how to resolve it.
The result of throwing this exception out of init gives in stdout:
6ab39d49 TraceNLS u No message text associated with key Servlet.is.unavailable,.because.the.root.configuration.could.not.be.loaded.
To.fix,.insert.root.properties.into.the.classpath. in bundle com.ibm.ejs.resources.seriousMessages
This is ugly and I'd like to remove this warning. I can convert my message text to a key, but how/where can I map my key to some text so that I won't get this warning from TraceNLS?
Googling TraceNLS and com.ibm.ejs.resources.seriousMessages just brought up a bunch of pages of people with problems who copy/pasted their entire output.
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

This error is caused by $(node.name) variables in the application server descriptors of the nodes not being replaced with the node name.
Simply open the server.xml file for each node and replace $(node.name) with the specific node name of each node. This can also be done at the dmgr level for each application server so that it syncs in the future.
See this topic for a similar error involving security.xml:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21221268