SAP EP – Netweaver Portal

Symptom

NW2004 (NW04) engine installation on HA system finished successfully and engine page can be launched -> / index.html.
Portal installation fails with the below exceptions:
1. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: iaik/utils/Base64Exception
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.impl.persistence.rdbms.DBConnectionPool.(DBConnectionPool.java:108)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.impl.persistence.rdbms.PersistenceHandler.(PersistenceHandler.java:38)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.impl.cache.ConfigurationCache.(ConfigurationCache.java:149)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.bootstrap.ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.init(ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.java:236)
at com.sap.engine.core.configuration.bootstrap.ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.< init>(ConfigurationManagerBootstrapImpl.java:49)
at com.sap.engine.configtool.batch.BatchConfig.initDBConnetion(BatchConfig.java:64)
at com.sap.engine.configtool.batch.BatchConfig.go(BatchConfig.java:52)
at com.sap.engine.configtool.batch.BatchConfig.main(BatchConfig.java:94)
2. ERROR: Not deployed. Deploy Service returned ERROR:
java.rmi.RemoteException: Cannot deploy application sap.com/com.sapportals.dqe.beans..
Reason: Exception during generation of components of application sap.com/com.sapportals.dqe.beans in container EJBContainer.; nested exception is: com.sap.engine.services.deploy.exceptions.ServerDeploymentException: Exception during generation of components of application sap.com/com.sapportals.dqe.beans in container EJBContainer.
attached exception.
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/metamatrix/platform/service/api/exception/ServiceException
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
The exceptions can be found in sapinst_instdir folder in java.log/sapinst.log/sapinst_dev.log files.

Other terms

Portal installation, Installation, HA, High Availability, NW04, NW2004, NetWeaver 2004
Reason and Prerequisites

Prerequisites:
SAP NetWeaver 2004 all SP’s.
Reasons:
In HA system, the portal installer may fail to locate the jar file mentioned below during the installation.
Solution

For exception No 1:
A. Make sure SAP Note No. 810159 (Subsequent installation of SAP JAVA CRYPTO TOOLKIT) was applied.
Or follow instructions in: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/8d/cb71b8046e6e469bf3dd283104e65b/content.htm
B. Verify the following:
- iaik_jce.jar file should be located at: #.\usr\sap/H36/DVEBMGS36/SYS/global/security/lib/engine
- iaik_jce_export.jar file should be located at: #.\usr\sap/H36/DVEBMGS36/j2ee/deploying/lib
If both files are not stored there, please locate the files manually and then run the sapinst again.
For exception No 2:
Please restart the engine and then run the sapinst again.