I'm on WebSphere V7 and it looks like due to an expiring certificate, I'm not able to open the Admin Console due to a SSLC0008E (Unable to initialize SSL connection).  Do I have to use wsadmin to import a new cert since I cannot do this through the Admin Console anymore or is there a way to bypass these errors and still use the Admin Console so I can import a new cert.

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Cesar Garcia
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Hi Cesar. one option would be to disable admin security temporarily, then use the admin console to import a new certificate, then enable admin security again.
How to disable security is documented here: Disabling WebSphere administrative security when admin console is not accessible (ibm.com)

BTW: I assume you are aware that WAS v7 is out of support since several years now. If you would like to move to a supported version of WAS, you should use the Binary Scanner to get an impression about the efforts.
Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries overview - IBM Documentation

Hope that helps.

Lars
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Lars Besselmann
Integration Technical Specialist, IBM Technology Sales, EMEA
IBM
Düsseldorf
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Hello Lars,

Thanks for the resource and this should help a lot.  We're hoping to get out of this version very soon.  Thanks.

Cesar

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Cesar Garcia
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri March 04, 2022 02:35 AM
From: Lars Besselmann
Subject: Enable Admin Console with SSLHandshake Error

Hi Cesar. one option would be to disable admin security temporarily, then use the admin console to import a new certificate, then enable admin security again.
How to disable security is documented here: Disabling WebSphere administrative security when admin console is not accessible (ibm.com)

BTW: I assume you are aware that WAS v7 is out of support since several years now. If you would like to move to a supported version of WAS, you should use the Binary Scanner to get an impression about the efforts.
Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries overview - IBM Documentation

Hope that helps.

Lars
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Lars Besselmann
Integration Technical Specialist, IBM Technology Sales, EMEA
IBM
Düsseldorf
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