How to update the Amazon Corretto JDK Components included with InfoScale for Windows

Description

The Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA), a graphical user interface that is available with InfoScale for Windows, can now use Amazon Corretto OpenJDK

To avail the latest updates, there may be a need to upgrade the OpenJDK used by Infoscale to the latest version.

This article provides the steps to update the Amazon Corretto OpenJDK used by Infoscale to the latest version, without upgrading the product itself.

NOTE: This article is only applicable when VEA is already transitioned from Oracle JRE to Amazon Corretto OpenJDK. For steps to complete this transition, refer Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI transition from Oracle Client JRE To Amazon Corretto OpenJDK

Solution

For Infoscale 7.x and 8.x:

Perform the following steps to replace the Amazon Corretto JDK components:

1)      Stop Veritas Enterprise Administrator (vxsvc) Service by executing the following command:

  net stop vxsvc

2)      Take a backup of the jdk folder that is located at \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\

3)      From the Amazon Corretto download center, download the latest x86 Amazon Corretto JDK as a zip archive.

4)      Extract the downloaded zip file and copy the contents of x86 Amazon Corretto JDK (32 bit) to the \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jdk folder to replace the earlier components.

CAUTION: Once the zip file is extracted, do not copy the root jdkx.x.x.x folder, but the contents inside the jdkx.x.x.x folder to \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jdk

NOTE: After replacing the latest JDK binaries, the VEA certificate needs to be re-registered. However, the registration command will only work:

         a) For InfoScale Versions (7.4.1 to 8.0), when the patches from Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI transition from Oracle Client JRE To Amazon Corretto OpenJDK are installed

         b) For Amazon Corretto JDK, which is shipped in InfoScale installations (starting 8.0.1 and 8.0.2).

5) Once the above prerequisites are met, execute the below command to register the certificate into the cacerts store which is required to launch VEA GUI.

“%vmpath%\..\Veritas Object Bus\jdk\bin\keytool.exe” -import -noprompt -file “%vmpath%\..\Veritas Object Bus\bin\VxVMCERT.pem” -alias VxVMCERT -keystore “%vmpath%\..\Veritas Object Bus\jdk\jre\lib\security\cacerts" -storepass changeit

6)      Start vxsvc service by executing the following command:

net start vxsvc

Note: This installs the latest updates and replaces older components. No reboot is required..

7)     Browse to \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jdk\bin path and run the below command to verify the latest Amazon Corretto version is successfully installed.

           java -version

For Infoscale 9.x:

Perform the following steps to replace the Amazon Corretto JDK components:

1)      Stop Veritas Enterprise Administrator (vxsvc) Service by executing the following command:

  net stop vxsvc

2)      Take a backup of the jdk folder that is located at \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\

3)      From the Amazon Corretto download center, download the latest x64 Amazon Corretto JDK as a zip archive.

4)      Extract the downloaded zip file and copy the contents of x64 Amazon Corretto JDK (64 bit) to the \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jdk folder to replace the earlier components.

IMPORTANT: Once the zip file is extracted, do not copy the root jdkx.x.x.x folder, but the contents inside the jdkx.x.x.x folder to \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jdk

5)      After replacing the latest JDK bits, execute the below command to register the certificate into the cacerts store which is required to launch VEA GUI.

“%vmpath%\..\Veritas Object Bus\jdk\bin\keytool.exe” -import -noprompt -file “%vmpath%\..\Veritas Object Bus\bin\VxVMCERT.pem” -alias VxVMCERT -keystore “%vmpath%\..\Veritas Object Bus\jdk\lib\security\cacerts" -storepass changeit

6)      Start vxsvc service by executing the following command:

net start vxsvc

Note: This installs the latest updates and replaces older components. No reboot is required..

7)     Browse to \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jdk\bin path and run the below command to verify the latest Amazon Corretto version is successfully installed.

           java -version

NOTE: For any other Java versions apart from Amazon Corretto JDK, the above listed steps will not work.