Why "Setup" or "configure" the AX?

Probably a dumb question, but I'm just trying to understand the wireless world a bit more....
I'm reading everywhere that I would have to setup or configure the AX or any wireless router for that matter. I don't understand why? Is it just "turning on" the router? I'm asking this because I never have to setup or configure a wireless connection anywhere else..ie, coffee shop.
And what about taking the AX to a hotel room or to a friends house....Would it have to be setup each time?
Thanks for any help. Just trying to understand it a bit more. If I get a AX, I want to be able to take it with me AND allow other users (PC included) to use it.

hi hendogger,
wireless routers need some configuration depending the way you want to operate them. connecting to internet can be done by several means; wirelessly, DSL, cable, ethernet...
First of all, the router must be configured in order to negociate an internet connection with you internet service provider; therefore you need to setup your account information.
The, if you want to active the wireless broadcast, you may/must want to configure encryption that will be compatible with your computers; WPA, WEP, etc.
Then, you may want to configure the built-in firewall by redirecting and/or openning port or for remote access.
since wireless router have plenty option and can work in various way, you need to configure them. but still, no big deal given you can read its user manual.
the airport express allow you to have multiple configuration on it so you do not have to configure each time you move to a different location.

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Configuring the iPhone and your environment for wireless corporate email

I'm posting this as a top level thread, because I'm certain that there are others out there, who like me, are trying to figure this out.
Configuring the iPhone for Enterprise Use
With Apple’s release of the iPhone, IT organizations are presented with an interesting challenge. Senior execs, gadget heads, and technoratti are all flocking to this device, heralded as the be all and end all of smartphone telecommunications technology. As these devices begin to flood into our organizations, we are met with the challenge to ‘make it work’.
After much explaining that the iPhone is not intended for Enterprise integration, and many discussions surrounding the technical feasibility of bringing said devices into the fold, and being the resident Mac and Linux head with an iPhone in hand, I decided to embark on the mission of making one ‘work’. I succeeded in part, however it’s not the kind of ‘work’ that is going to be viable for most end users.
First of all, it’s important to understand that the email client for the iPhone is a modified version of Mac’s Mail program. Not the best client in the world, but it does support Exchange integration. It also does external email sources, such as Yahoo and gMail, very well. For my interest though, I’m focusing on the Exchange integration functionality, as that is just about everyone’s corporate standard.
Bringing this task to fruition requires some understanding about the limitations of the iPhone, as well as some of its current quirks. Wireless802.11x, EDGE, VPN and Mail are all components necessary to provide a serviceable solution for mobile email access, and each of these things has some peculiarities that don’t appear to be fully worked out by Apple at this time.
For instance, within my organization, we have a secured wireless connectivity option available within our building; however, the SSID of this network is not broadcast, for the obvious reasons. SO, connecting the iPhone to it is a manual process of defining the network, and automatic reconnection seems to be very hit or miss, so it becomes far less of an option for any form of direct network access to your Exchange environment. (As an example, I had to redefine that network, on the iPhone, at least half a dozen times during this process.)
The other components have equally quirky issues, and I will discuss the how’s to get around them below.
In coordinating this into a cohesive plan however, I will break this into three sections;
1. Wireless and EDGE connectivity
2. VPN access to your network
3. Connecting to Exchange
So, without further ado;
Wireless and EDGE Connectivity
The wireless capabilities of the iPhone are, on the surface at least, excellent. It connects seamlessly to unsecured networks, offers the option of prompted or unprompted automatic connectivity, and is capable of 802.11G performance. Not bad for such a small package. However, it is very limited in the forms of secure network access it supports. These are, to quote Apple’s website; (and my iPhone)
WEP Password
WEP hex or ASCII
WPA (personal)
WPA2 (personal)
Now, due to the obvious security problems in implementing WEP security, it’s likely that any network you run into is going to be WPA or WPA2. The iPhone ONLY supports the personal versions of these protocols, so be aware of this going into the situation. If you’re not connecting to your work or school wireless, and you’re entering the information correctly, then it’s probably because they have the Enterprise version of one of the protocols enabled. If that is the case, then you’re either hunting for unsecured hotspots, or else depending on EDGE.
In my case, I did have access to a WPA2 (Personal) enabled wireless signal to connect to my internal network. I thought my problem was half solved! I defined the connection, the wireless capability of the phone worked perfectly, and I was connected. I was wrong. Apparently, and judging from the Mac forums I’m not alone in this, the iPhone does not do a very good job of RE-connecting to a secured wireless network. It does an even worse job, when this is coupled with the fact that it doesn’t do a very good job reconnecting to a wireless network with an unpublished SSID.
After much fiddling and research into this, I determined that this simply was not the way to go, and I abandoned the idea. I wasn’t about to compromise my network security in order to get this silly phone working! So, that left me with either unsecured WiFi, or EDGE.
Either one of these connects pretty seamlessly, and gives me a relatively decent Internet connection. There are some issues being reported of the iPhone swapping between EDGE and WiFi for not apparent reason, but that said, it can still be made to work.
Now that I had this connection outside of my network, I obviously had to consider options for getting a secured connection into my network, which of course leads us to;
VPN Access Into Your Network
Being that this device was touted as the ‘real internet’ I was very excited to see if I could achieve this connection through my SSL VPN appliance. To make a long story short, I could not. Because Apple’s idea of the ‘Real Internet’ apparently does not include those wacky concepts like Java support, this proved to be impossible. My Apple cohorts will scream that it does support JavaScript, but we all know that that and 2 bucks will get you a small coffee at Starbucks… and not much more.
(The iPhone also does not support Flash, but that’s a topic for another conversation. I know, how could they leave that out? I’m amazed too, but then Steve Jobs always has been a bit too arrogant for his own good… I mean what does he expect, we’re all going to rewrite everything into QuickTime??? Please.)
Since that option didn’t work, I was left with the wide selection of two possibilities provided within the iPhone software. Either, a PPTP or L2TP VPN tunnel.
We went ahead and configured a PPTP connection on one of our Cisco routers in order to test this. It didn’t work. I couldn’t connect to it. Tried and tried. Nada. SOOOO, we said OK, and configured a L2TP connection on one of our Cisco routers, with similar results.
Figuring that this was something in the config, we called Cisco, and did the technical support dance with them for several days, trying one thing after another to get this connection to actually work. Nothing helped, and it never worked using either protocol. Then, I noticed an obscure article somewhere on some website that said something to the effect that getting one of these tunnels to work from the iPhone to Cisco was nigh on impossible.
About the same time, my senior network guy said screw it, let’s put this on a Microsoft server. And so we did. Now, this is interesting in it’s own right, because configuring out of the box L2TP or PPTP on a Microsoft server results in a default authentication method of Windows Authentication. This does not work for the iPhone, because it has no idea what to do with the Windows security token it receives. So, you authenticate, and then are immediately dropped due to an inability to communicate with the PPP server.
Fortunately, we (as do most organizations) have a Radius server. We selected Radius authentication, configured both sides of the Radius authentication setup properly, and launched the PPTP tunnel…. AND…. EUREKA!!! The iPhone’s VPN software connected, authenticated, got an IP, and I was on the network! Well, no.
After about 2 seconds, I realized that while I did indeed have a connection, I couldn’t do anything with it. Couldn’t even browse to an internal site via IP address. The connection was up, the connection was working, the connection was useless.
So, we decided to give L2TP a shot. Configured it pretty much identically to the PPTP setup, used Radius, launched the iPhone client, and finally, after many days of screwing around, it worked. Now all I needed was to get my email working, so I started working on;
Connecting to Exchange
In the Mail program on the iPhone, the first time you launch it, you’re presented with the ability to configure an email source. However on subsequent or additional accounts, you must go under Settings, Mail to get to this functionality.
Going into the Mail configuration, I selected an additional account, the account type is, of course, Exchange. The configuration components are pretty obvious, however some things of note are;
Do NOT include your domain information in the User Name field
For all Host Names, use the fully qualified domain name of the server, or else IP
You WILL need to have SMTP enabled somewhere in order to send email
Anyway, I set all this up, and nothing happened. It said that my server was not responding. Did a little research, and it turns out that the only way to connect to Exchange is through an IMAP4 connection, and just in case you didn’t know, IMAP4 is disabled by default, so you have to enable and configure it.
Went onto the Exchange server, set the service to Auto, Started the listener, and finally, at long last, EUREKA! I finally had Corporate email on my iPhone, connecting securely, and not sending anything plain text anywhere. Hooray!
Now for the problems with this solution;
First of all, it depends upon VPN access into your environment, something that you may or may not be comfortable with. One good thing is that the iPhone does prompt for password to reconnect, and will tie the continuity of the VPN connection into the general phone lock security, such that an inability to provide the appropriate access code to a locked phone results in the VPN not being accessible.
The VPN of course is dependant upon a reliable network connection. I’ve noticed that it’s somewhat graceful in switching between WiFi and EDGE, however it’s not totally graceful, and you can experience some hinky things, like being able to send and not receive, or the mail client saying ‘Connecting’ for about 5 minutes before it figures things out.
The best cure for this is to simply stop and restart the VPN connection. Note that when you reconnect, the first attempt will prompt you for a numeric password, this is meaningless unless you have the device lock turned on. Just enter anything. (I think this is another bug) THEN it will re-prompt you for your real VPN password.
This solution for email delivery is obviously dependant upon the VPN connection being active. I’ve noticed that at times the iPhone will disconnect the VPN (probably when service switching) and not bother to mention it. When that happens, of course the VPN must be restarted.
For the lazy, this is an inconvenient solution because while it would appear that the iPhone will cache the VPN password, in fact it will not. That means that each re-launch requires that you re-enter your password. Not terrible for me, but I could see it being very tedious for the average corporate user.
The OSX Mail client has several little deficiencies, which may or may not impact your use of the device in this manner. For instance, if you have subfolders defined for your inbox, and server side rules to move mail into them, then you will not see any synchronization of that mail until you actually select the subfolder. Also, since there is such poor management of attachments and downloads, moving anything around via email on this device is nigh on impossible.
EDGE access to your corporate email, via a VPN, is a bit sloooooow. It works, it’s certainly fast enough for my purposes, but it’s not the slick quick access that we’ve all become accustomed to with Blackberry and Good devices. The lack of 3G support becomes a very noticeable shortcoming here.
(Why Apply didn’t simply partner with Good Technologies to crank out a client for this thing, I’ll never understand, but I guess you can refer to my comment above about certain people’s arrogance.)
The biggest problem of all of course is that it’s simply klugey. I hate klugey. But, with the capabilities at this device’s disposal, and given Apple’s ambitious, if a bit idiotic, stance that no third party will develop software for the iPhone, then this is about as good as it’s going to get for now.
It is my understanding that overseas there is some initiative underway to provide a more seamless Visto or Synchronica integration for enterprise email. However, given Apple’s unbelievably restrictive agreement with ATT regarding this device and the OTA necessity of delivering the client, I seriously doubt if we’ll see this in the near future in the US.
But I digress, so…
In Conclusion
This solution is not for the faint of heart, it doesn’t work all that well, and it has way too many moving parts that are subject to failure. However, I would say that this solution is serviceable for the corporate technology professional who needs email, and really, REALLY wants the other features of the iPhone. (ie, phone whores such as me.) It requires patience, it requires an understanding that this is not a 100% thing, and there definitely needs to be a prebuilt expectation that this device will not serve your email in anything approaching the manner to which you’ve become accustomed.
As long as all of that is okay though, then go right ahead, set it up, and enjoy!
The Short Version;
(I put this at the end because I want everyone to feel my pain!)
Wireless:
Use unsecured wireless or EDGE. Secured wireless may be serviceable as long as the SSID is broadcast, but there are known issues with this.
VPN:
L2TP, shared secret, running on Microsoft server, with Radius. (May work elsewhere, but doesn’t seem to run on Cisco at all) Accounts enabled for external access.
Exchange:
Configure IMAP4 Virtual Server on your Exchange environment, ensure that you have some SMTP resource for outbound email, use fully qualified domain names for all servers (or IP) in the mail config and do not include any domain prefix or suffix for user accounts.
The BIG Disclaimer at the End
Please note that all of this is provided ‘as is’. It worked for me, and I hope it works for you. To my knowledge, it’s not endorsed by Apple, and I’m not in the business of providing support for this thing. If it breaks something, if it doesn’t work, or if you simply don’t like it or me, I don’t care. However, if you have a question, and I’m not busy, and I feel like answering, I may lend a hand. You can email me at
Matthew dot Yotko at mac dot com
Don’t be surprised or offended if I don’t answer. Also, understand that I don’t check this address every day… Maybe a couple times a week.
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.10) iphone

Thanks, now I understand why the wifi keeps dropping. On my personal wireless network, it also seems the distance from the access point is not good compared to my laptop. At work our network & exchange teams don't seem to have the desire to struggle with this "toy" until customers start forcing its adoption. I am using OWA and it works fine over EDGE. I will share your posting with them.
Thank you again.
Dell Windows XP Pro

Configuring the HP PSC 2510 on a new network

I'm posting at the end of a long weekend setting up my psc 2510 on a new wireless network. I'm pretty much done, and I'm posting to share what I've learned with others in the hope of saving them trouble. I'm beyond my warranty period, so my advice is based on a few hints from phone tech support and a lot of work by trial and error.
I have four machines total, two of them running OS X 10.4, the others running 10.3.9.
1. Start by hooking the printer up to a wired (ethernet) network. Print out a network config page (setup, 6, 1) when the printer shows its blue "networked" light. Dial the printer's URL into your web browser and enter the new network's info into the printer's embedded web server. If you get everything right, when you turn off the printer, disconnect the ethernet cable, and turn on the printer, you'll get that blue "networked" light after a minute or so.
If you don't see the light, print out another config page and check the "Wireless Status": "Scanning" means that the printer's having trouble connecting to the network. Your best bet is to temporarily turn off all wireless encryption/security and reconfigure the printer's connection. Once you have a connection, then try adding various sorts of security/encryption. In my experience, the printer doesn't do well if the SSID of the network isn't being broadcast or with a list of acceptable MAC addresses. In my old network I managed to get the printer running with WPA security, but this time I had to settle for WEP 128 bit security.
The Wireless Status will read "Disabled" if the printer has a USB cable or Ethernet cable attached. This means you need to unplug all cables (and possibly turn the printer off and on) to enable the wireless card. If the Wireless Status is "Disabled" even though you have no cables attached, you have probably reset the printer to factory defaults (see #2 below).
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SOLUTION: Run the PSC 2500 Series installer found on the HP CD, preferably from a Mac running an system older than Tiger. It might also be possible to avoid running the installer and just run the config utility.
From this point on, I'll assume you've managed to get the printer on your network. Here's how to get all your computers configured to use the psc's printer and scanner functions.
HP tech support advised me to download the latest installer/print driver and use that to install and configure the psc 2150. This is good advice, insofar as the old HP Director software has a memory leak and the old HP Scan was prone to crashing whenever the 2510 went into Energy Saving mode. But if your mac isn't running OX X 10.4 (Tiger), you'll find that your system doesn't seem to recognize the new print drivers installed with by the download. This is especially a problem if you follow HP tech support's advice and delete a bunch of files prior to upgrading from the old installer to the new one, as (I suspect) it was at this point that I deleted working printer drivers from my Macs running Mac OS 10.3.9.
So if you're running 10.3.9 or earlier, I advise you not to delete any files and to configure your computer for the print and scanner functions in the opposite order that HP advises.
Most important: through trial and error I discovered that the HP Setup application isn't able to configure the printer if more than one user is logged in (Fast User Switching!). (This is a particularly tricky error to diagnose as the only symptom is that the setup app keeps claiming that it "can't find device" even though in the stage just prior it had successfully detected it!) Log out all other users, then proceed with the following steps:
1. Go to Print Center (called Print Setup Utility in Tiger), delete your old psc printer (if any) and click "add printer". The psc should show up in HP IP printing or under Rendezvous (called Bonjour in Tiger), and when you click on it, the Add Printer utilty should automatically find the "HP All-in-one" printer driver. If something's gone wrong, though, you may get the message "Print Driver not installed". That's what happened to me after I deleted files (see above).
SOLUTION: Run the PSC 2500 Series installer found on your original HP CD. When it finishes, it will start the HP setup assistant, in the course of which you'll be directed to go to the Print Center and add your printer. Do so.
2. Once you've added the printer successfully, run the latest HP installer, a download from the HP website. You should be able to skip the step where it asks you to add the printer, as you did this in step one.
3. Finally, since you didn't delete any files earlier, be sure to remove HP Director from your dock and from your Startup items (Login items in Tiger) by opening Mac System Prefs - Accounts - Startup/Login Items. HP Director has a memory leak. And it is superceded by the newer HP Device Manager when you download and run the latest HP installer. You should find the new HP Device Manager in your dock after step 2 (above).
If you have questions, write me at the following email (account name reversed to foil spam bots):
[email protected]
Powerbook 17" Mac OS X (10.4.3) Airport Express base station

Hello dgt228, welcome.
I am not sure why you are choosing EAP. If you have set your router to use WPA, you should just set your printer to enable WPA. Is your wireless light illuminated on the front of your printer? Run a Wireless Network Test from the front of the printer to self-test the radio. If you can connect this printer with Ethernet to your router its connection will be more secure and more reliable.

Cant configure the node of my Integration Gateway

So I've been trying to get web services exposed from my test PeopleSoft Installation so that they can be used by another PeopleSoft Installation. After some reading and searching I found that I have to configure the Integration Broker in order to do that. From there I've been trying for a while now (unsuccessfully as you can imagine) to configure the Integration Gateway of my PeopleTools installation. Right now I can ping my Integration Gateway which comes back with...
PeopleSoft Integration Gateway
PeopleSoft Listening Connector
Tools Version : 8.53
Status:ACTIVE
and from there I can load the connectors, of which there are 11 different ones. After that I go to "Gateway Setup Properties", log in, and from there I have everything filled out with the following...
Gateway Default App. Server_
App Server URL: <the machinename>:<the port#>
User ID: PS
Password: <the password>
Tools Release: 8.53
Domain Password: <none>
Virtual Server Node: <none>
PeopleSoft Nodes_
Node Name: PSFT_HR
App Server URL: <the machinename>:<the port#>
User ID: PS
Password: <the password>
Tools Release: 8.53
Domain Password: <none>
After that, I try to ping the node but it always errors with the following and I have no idea why...
PeopleSoftTargetConnector - The appserver may be down. Check Appserver URL or Domain Password.
The problem is that I know I have the right URL and that the AppServer is running because I can see it's status in Command Prompt after running PSADMIN.EXE and navigating to the status of the server (not to mention I'm able to log into it). I've also looked at the "Configuration Status" in "Main Menu > PeopleTools > Integration Broker > Integration Network" and got checks on "Gateway Configured" and "Domain Active" but there's an X next to "Node Network Not Configured" which I'm not sure why it's there so if somebody could explain that to me, that'd be really helpful.
So from "Node Network", I can see all the nodes and can see the node that I'm trying to use for the Integration Gateway, "PSFT_HR", that has checks in the boxes under everything except "Remote Gateway Node". After I click on the PSFT_HR node I can see the "Node Definitions" tab that has the Authentication set to "Password", the password set to what I'm entering with the "Gateway Setup Properties", the "Default User ID" set to "PS" and everything after that (Hub Node, Master Node, etc.) is blank. The check-boxes next to "Default Local Node", "Local Node", "Active Node", and "Segment Aware" are checked.
In the "Connectors" tab I've tried pinging the node but came up with the same error from before. Also, towards the bottom there's a line that says "This connector does not have properties. Use Gateways Page to setup." where I log in to the "Gateway Setup Properties" again, the same info is used from before, and pinging the node gives the same error. As for the other tabs "Portal", "WS Security", and "Routings" I haven't done anything with them as I never read anything that said I needed too.
Also, as a side note, every time I try to ping the node the application stops responding even after I click cancel or try to click the "x" on the window. I cant do anything until it times out and gives me the error so if somebody could tell me how to change that or stop it from happening, that'd also be really helpful in saving time with troubleshooting this issue
I hope this wasn't too long with TOO MUCH information (or quotation marks) but I thought I'd get everything I've got right now out the way since I've tried a lot of different things and may get some suggestions that I've already found/tried up until now. I feel like it's something small that I'm missing (because that's always the case) so hopefully one of you can remedy my situation.
Thanks a lot for any help/suggestions (even if I've tried them, but I'll try them again in case something changes because computers work that way :/ ).
Edited by: 1006417 on May 17, 2013 10:59 AM
Fixed the typos with "machinename:port#" to fit the overall naming convention I used.

Since you didn't provide the "machinename" I'm wondering if that's your problem... you mention hanging while pinging... that sounds like name lookup or port connectivity problems, as if the gateway is waiting for something to time out in that arena. For communicating to yourself, depending on your config, that setting should match exactly whats in the <PS_HOME/PS_CFG_HOME>/webserv/peoplesoft/applications/peoplesoft/PORTAL.war/WEB-INF/psftdocs/ps/configuration.properties psserver line. Now if you created a domain just for PUBSUB it would need to match the jolt port for that domain (not the WSL). Since your logging in online already, we know the configuration.properties file has a good value, if your trying a different domain, I'd try switching back to using your domain for servicing online requests and try again.
I recommend looking at Nicolas's write up on this topic, it's very detailed.
http://gasparotto.blogspot.com/2013/05/integration-network-workcenter-853.html you may need to reference his 8.52 version for some pre-reqs as well but the link is in the 8.53 one. Also look for answers in the log file <PS_HOME/PS_CFG_HOME>/webserv/peoplesoft/applications/peoplesoft/PSIGW.war/errorLog.html (if you took default weblogic domain name). I just went through this process on a fresh demo 8.53 demo install and was able to start pinging the node after only a few steps. they were,
1. define the gateway
2. load the connectors
3. define the default and additional node
4. verified the PS user was able to logon (originally the password was expired)
5. set the auth type to Password for the node I was using.
6. success on ping, interestingly enough I didn't even have PUBSUB processes running yet, node network and active domain both show not configured at this time
On your node network not getting the green check, look on the Node Network status page just below the title, there is a check box for Secure Keystore Value Defined. Is that checked? If not it needs to be. You probably need to set the secureFileKeystorePassword to your keystore password. The default is still password, you can change this from the Advanced Properties Page link of the Gateway Setup Properties page. Use the encryption tool because the password can't be clear text, it has to be saved encrypted to work. Then go back to the node network page and see if it's cleared up. I mentioned this briefly in a write I did on Unified Navigation http://remotepsadmins.com/2013/03/04/peoplesoft-unified-navigation-with-peoplesoft-applicatations-portal-interaction-hub. Nicolas's 8.52 write up has screenshots and such though he does it prior to showing that it will prevent configuration from passing. I've also seen in properly configured systems you may need to just save this page without changes to populate some data, but that was on upgrading to 8.52, i would expect 8.53 would not need that.
continuing on, I did exactly what I just mentioned, and I've got a configured node network.
i just bounced the domain, adding the PUB/SUB servers, and activating them on the Domain Status page. I've now got green lights across the board and I can still ping successfully. I used no domain password, but I also verified that none was set in the psappsrv.cfg file. I just hit the Network Integration Status button on my system and got the Status check successful message.
Let us know how it goes.
Edited by: RCC on May 17, 2013 1:13 AM
Fixed a typo and changed a sentence to make it more clear

Why can't see the configArchive directory in domain ?

hi,everyone,
I have constructed some wls domain such domain-a,domain-b,domain-c using the same configure wizard of wls8.1sp2,and
found one strange thing:
after running several weeks,within domain-a ,i found domian-a/configArchive directory ,but can't find it in
domain-b and domain-c ,for all three domains, i have changed the domain config and setup the Administration Server
archives up to 10 previous versions of config.xml(In the domain Configuration->General tab:Archive Configuration Count
box,).
according to WLS8.12 docuement ,when change the domain configuration, the wls server will backup configure.xml to
domain-name/configArchive directory.
My question is : why some domain don't create configArchive directory and others can do it automatic ? Need i
create configArchive directory manually or do other things ?
thanks a lot.
Great Lou

Gopal,thanks a lot.
I am using weblogic8.1sp2 also. I just changed item "Enable SSL Port" ,and found that configArchive directory
was created.
This really made me confusing :My domains are running in product environment for long time,I had changed some
domain configure to tuning performance ,some change made by directly edit config.xml,others made by weblogic
console, but I can't see configArchive directory until today.
Anyway ,now config.xml-backup works normal,Let it be...
Great Lou
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:35:50 -0700, Gopal Allam <> wrote:
Lou,
Thats right. If the changes you do through weblogic console modifies config.xml, then config.xml should automatically be archived in configArchive directory.
What version of weblogic you are on ? We are using weblogic 81sp2 which works as mentioned in the documentation.
-Gopal

Active Directory Certificate Services setup failed with the following error: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress. 0x800703e5 (WIN32: 997)

Hi,
I am trying to install certificate services on a windows 2008 server (R2 ENT SP1) with a PCIe nCipher HSM module installed on it. The version of nCipher SW is = 11.30. It is a RootCA, and I am trying to use a key that is already stored in the HSM (I
have done this before with a PCI HSM (older HW version)). I select “Use existing private key” and “Select an existing private key on this computer” on the wizard, then i change the CSP to nCipher and click on "search" the key I am looking for
appears and I select that one. I repeat, I have done this before and it works with a PCI HSM module.
The installation is finished before being prompted to insert the operator cards, and it ends with two errors:
<Error>: Active Directory Certificate Services setup failed with the following error: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress. 0x800703e5 (WIN32: 997)
And:
<Error>: Active Directory Certificate Services setup failed with the following error: The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation.
0x8007139f (WIN32: 5023)
The servermanager.log says:
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:48.195 [CAManager] Sync: Validity period units: Years
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:48.928 [Provider] Error (Id=0) System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800703E5): CCertSrvSetup::Install: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress. 0x800703e5 (WIN32: 997)
at Microsoft.CertificateServices.Setup.Interop.CCertSrvSetupClass.Install()
at Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.CertificateServer.CertificateServerRoleProvider.Configure(InstallableFeatureInformation featureInfo, DiscoveryResult discoveryResult, ChangeTracker changeTracker)
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:48.928 [Provider] CAErrorID: 0, CAErrorString: 'Active Directory Certificate Services setup failed with the following error: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.
0x800703e5 (WIN32: 997)'
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:48.928 [Provider] Adding error message.
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:48.928 [Provider] [STAT] For 'Certification Authority':
And:
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:49.053 [CAWebProxyManager] Sync: Initializing defaults
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:49.162 [Provider] Error (Id=0) System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8007139F): CCertSrvSetup::Install: The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the requested operation. 0x8007139f (WIN32: 5023)
at Microsoft.CertificateServices.Setup.Interop.CCertSrvSetupClass.Install()
at Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.CertificateServer.CertificateServerRoleProvider.Configure(InstallableFeatureInformation featureInfo, DiscoveryResult discoveryResult, ChangeTracker changeTracker)
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:49.162 [Provider] CAErrorID: 0, CAErrorString: 'Active Directory Certificate Services setup failed with the following error: The group or resource is not in the correct
state to perform the requested operation. 0x8007139f (WIN32: 5023)'
1856: 2014-07-23 18:27:49.162 [Provider] Adding error message.
Has anyone experienced this before? Am I missing something here?
Any help will be very appreciated
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Alejandro Lozano Villanueva

Hi, thanks for your support.
I have been playing around a bit with some ncipher commands and found this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\nCipher\nfast\bin>cspcheck.exe
cspcheck: fatal error: File key_mscapi_container-1c44b9424a23f6cddc91e8a065241a0
9aa719e4f (key #1): 0 modules contain the counter (NVRAM file ID 021c44b9424a23f
6cddc91)
cspcheck: information: 2 containers and 2 keys found.
cspcheck: fatal error occurred.
If I perform the same command on the original server (the server with the original kmdata folder and with the running RootCA services):
E:\nfast\bin>cspcheck.exe
cspcheck: information: 2 containers and 2 keys found.
cspcheck: everything seems to be in order.
Strange?
Moreover, when I do a csptest.exe command (also on both servers, i find this)
On the new server:
C:\Program Files (x86)\nCipher\nfast\bin>csptest.exe
nCipher CSP test software
=========================
Found the nCipher domestic CSP named 'nCipher Enhanced Cryptographic Provider'
Provider name: nCipher Enhanced Cryptographic Provider
Version number: 1.48
User key containers:
Container 'csptest.exe' has no stored keys.
Container 'Administrator' has no stored keys.
Machine key containers:
Container '352dd28a-17cb-4c6f-b6e4-bf39bcf75db5' has a 2048-bit signature key.
Container 'ROOTCA' has no stored keys.
Container 'csptest.exe' has no stored keys.
While in the old server:
E:\nfast\bin>csptest.exe
nCipher CSP test software
=========================
Found the nCipher domestic CSP named 'nCipher Enhanced Cryptographic Provider'
Provider name: nCipher Enhanced Cryptographic Provider
Version number: 1.40
User key containers:
Container 'csptest.exe' has no stored keys.
Machine key containers:
Container '352dd28a-17cb-4c6f-b6e4-bf39bcf75db5' has a 2048-bit signature key.
Container 'ROOTCA' has a 2048-bit signature key.
Container 'csptest.exe' has no stored keys.
As you can see, the container called ROOTCA, which is the one that I use during the installation, says it has no stored keys. While on the old server, it says it contains a key. Why is this happening? I dont know, I am copying the complete
key management folder from one server to another and initialize the security world with that folder as I always do, and i dont have any errors during this procedure.
Do you know what could be the cause of this? or how can I fix this? Thanks a lot, best regards.
Alejandro Lozano Villanueva

Why "Setup" or "configure" the AX?

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