IBM RSA II adapter and Java RE

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:43:14 +0000

Today, after a short break (you can call it break, I think), I sat down and looked at the IBM RSA II adapter’s remote management GUI and it’s trouble with JRE versions. Ever since the last Java updates, I was unable to access the RSA console because Java would throw an error like this:

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Initializing RemoteDisk v2.2
MCS v.3.6 initialized
Established connection to rsa.home.barfoo.org:1045
Connected via socket: Socket[addr=rsa.home.barfoo.org/10.0.0.150,port=2000,localport=4292]
Closing socket
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at mcsClient.Row.isValid(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Component.invalidateIfValid(Unknown Source)
 at java.awt.Component.setLocale(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.JComponent.(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source)
 at javax.swing.JPanel.(Unknown Source)
 at mcsClient.Row.(Unknown Source)
 at mcsClient.Options.(Unknown Source)
 at mcsClient.McsToolBar.(Unknown Source)
 at mcsClient.McsClient.begin(Unknown Source)
 at mcsClient.McsClient.init(Unknown Source)
 at sun.plugin2.applet.Plugin2Manager$AppletExecutionRunnable.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Ausnahme: java.lang.NullPointerException

In the end, I downloaded every version since JRE 1.5.0.11 (that is 20 different versions ❗), as wittnessed by Michael Ellerbeck that the last working version for him was JRE 1.5.0.11, and gave each one a try (since I want to report the issue to IBM, so that they gonna release a fix sometime soon).

IBM RSA II adapter and Java RE (fini)

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:32:44 +0000

If you remember back to July, I looked into some troubles I had with the IBM RSA II adapter’s Java interface and the latest JRE updates. I just noticed, that IBM released a new firmware yesterday for the RSA. The ChangeLog states this:

Version 1.13, GFEP35A Problem(s) Fixed:

* Suggested o Fix for Remote Control General Exception in JRE 1.6 update 12 and above. o Corrected a problem that DHCP renew/release may fail after a long time. o Corrected a problem that remote control preference link disapears after creating new key buttons. o Corrected a problem that cause event number shows only from 0 to 255 when views RSA log via telnet session.

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IBM RSA II adapter and Java RE

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