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RTC Eclipse 602 can not connect to repository received fatal alert: handshake_failure ( configured with client certificates)


Arun K Sriramaiah (3.2k23677) | asked Nov 15 '16, 3:42 a.m.
edited Nov 15 '16, 3:49 a.m.
Eclipse 4.2 RTC 602 will not connect to the Repository. I have a Client Certificate on my Client which is proofing my access to the RTC
Webpage. With this Certificate I can access RTC without any Issues but it is not working with Eclipse.

For Eclipse I created a .JKS and imported the Client certificate and started Eclipse via Admin CMD and -> eclipse.exe -nl en_US -vmargs -
Djavax.net.debug=all -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore="E: \IBM\RTC602TeamConcert\ssl\RTCkey.jks" -Djavax.net.ssl.
trustStorePassword=*****



but I get an handshake error. RTC is on 602 iFix003 Eclipse is 4.2 RTC 602

!MESSAGE Error logged from Process RCP UI:
!STACK 0
com.ibm.team.repository.common.TeamRepositoryException: CRJAZ2384E Cannot connect to the repository at URL "https://mbse-dev.daimler.com/ccm", see the nested exception for more details.
    at com.ibm.team.repository.client.util.RepositoryUtil.getRepositoryId2(RepositoryUtil.java:139)
    at com.ibm.team.repository.client.internal.TeamRepositoryService.connectToAndUpdateTeamRepository(TeamRepositoryService.java:401)
    at com.ibm.team.repository.client.internal.TeamRepositoryService.getTeamRepositoryWithOverride(TeamRepositoryService.java:180)
    at com.ibm.team.process.rcp.ui.RepositoryCreationPage.createNewRepository(RepositoryCreationPage.java:235)
    at com.ibm.team.process.rcp.ui.RepositoryCreationPage.create(RepositoryCreationPage.java:201)
    at com.ibm.team.process.rcp.ui.RepositoryCreationPage$1.run(RepositoryCreationPage.java:130)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
    at com.ibm.jsse2.j.a(j.java:9)
    at com.ibm.jsse2.j.a(j.java:6)
    at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.b(qc.java:744)
    at com.ibm.jsse2.qc.a(qc.java:463


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Shubjit Naik (1.5k1613) | answered Nov 15 '16, 3:48 a.m.
 Hi Arun

We tested this with Mutual Authentication for CLM, where the clients would need to present a certificate that the Server would understand and trust. We had similar issues with Eclipse clients when client needs to present a certificate. We got past it by adding some parameters in eclipse.ini file. Example certificate config that we added

-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore="E:\IBM\RTC602TeamConcert\ssl\RTC-Client-Key.p12"
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStoreType="PKCS12"
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword="*****"

Where RTC-Client-Key.p12 is the Client certificate that you select for example when accessing CLM through the Web. If there is no password for the certificate you can skip that parameter.


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