How to move the RSA Federated Identity Manager (FIM) database
Originally Published: 2006-06-26
Article Number
Applies To
UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux)
Issue
RSA Federated Identity Manager (FIM) 2.6 stopped starting after OS patch was applied
Error: "Error executing: IMPORTSECRETS Reason: Error occurred while exporting the secrets"; cannot import RSA Federated Identity Manager (FIM) secrets file
Error: "FATAL - exception: com.rsa.csf.common.exceptionbase.CsfApplicationException: can not get SSVS to access properties file" in logs; RSA Federated Identity Manager (FIM) does not start properly
Resolution
NOTE: THIS WILL NOT WORK IN A WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT.
When moving the RSA Federated Identity Manager (FIM) database or applying any OS patches that may cause FIM to stop working, perform the following steps:
1. Export the secrets and samlconfig prior to OS patch install:
configtool EXPORTSECRETS password filename
configtool EXPORTSAMLCONFIG EXPORTSAMLFILEPATH
2. Apply O/S kernel patch
3. Reboot machine & start only the FIM admin server:
startadminserver
4. Delete or rename the encryptedfileds.properties file and rsaSSVS file. Both files can be found in the %FIMROOT%/RSASecurity/FIM26/rsaappserver.
5. Import secrets and smalconfig from step 1:
configtool IMPORTSECRETS password exportedconfig
6. Start FIM app server:
startmanagedserver
Workaround
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