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Login in to Sterling Business Center leads to error Please contact system administrator

Troubleshooting


Problem

Attempts to login to IBM Sterling Business Center leads to error Please contact system administrator post upgrade.

Symptom

Clicking on Menu does not work after logging in. The below error is seen.
Ext.MessageBox.show({ title: 'Error', msg: 'An error has occurred. Please contact system administrator.', width:300, buttons: Ext.Msg.OK, icon: Ext.MessageBox.ERROR });

Cause

  • FP Factory setup not applied.
  • Usage of an old web,xml

Diagnosing The Problem

Check and confirm that FP factory setup is applied successfully. You may check <INSTAL_DIR>/database\fp-factorysetup for existence of .restart files.

Compare the web,xml present in the EAR with <INSTAL_DIR>\repository\eardata\sbc\extnweb.xml.sample and confirm the changes available is present.

Resolving The Problem

Steps to resolve:

  1. Run FP factory setup.

  2. Make sure the value of LOAD_FACTORY_SETUP is set to true in sandbox,cfg.

  3. Run the below command to load FP factory setup data
    > sci_ant.cmd -DFROM_FP=<From_FPNumber> -DTO_FP= <To_FPNumber> -DFORCE_DELETE_RESTART_FILES=true -f FSHelper.xml smcfs-datamigration

    For example:
    To execute FP factory changes from FP1 to FP 18, run the following command

    > sci_ant.cmd -DFROM_FP=1 -DTO_FP=18 -DFORCE_DELETE_RESTART_FILES=true -f FSHelper.xml smcfs-datamigration

  4. After running the above command confirm that .restart files are generated in <INSTALL_DIR>\database\fp-factorysetup folder.

  5. Merge web,xml changes present in <INSTAL_DIR>\repository\eardata\sbc\extnweb.xml.sample,

  6. Recreate the EAR and redeploy

[{"Product":{"code":"SS6PEW","label":"Sterling Order Management"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Component":"--","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"9.5;9.4","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB59","label":"Sustainability Software"}}]

Product Synonym

Sterling OMS

Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg22017086