Palamida Analyzer - Quick Assessment and Group Builder fail Due to certificate issues

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Summary

Palamida Analyzer - Quick Assessment and Group Builder fail Due to certificate issues. This issue has been identified as a bug under reference SCA-14890. This article contains a workaround to allow the reports to be generated

Symptoms

A bug has been identified in the Analyzer - Quick Assessment and Analyzer - Group Builder reports due to a certification issue. The following error can be observed in the catalina.out log file under <Install Dir>/tomcat/logs/:
2019-02-06 23:46:15,741 ERROR [http-apr-8888-exec-8] [AnalyzerTask] Error running Palamida Analyzer: class javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: validity check failed
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: validity check failed
at com.palamida.sdk.impl.PalamidaService.get(Unknown Source)
at com.palamida.sdk.impl.PalamidaService.get(Unknown Source)
at com.palamida.repoanalyzer.impl.DataServiceSource.testConnection(DataServiceSource.groovy:159)
at com.palamida.repoanalyzer.WorkspaceProcessor.process(WorkspaceProcessor.groovy:201)
at com.palamida.repoanalyzer.ReportTask.process(ReportTask.groovy:176)
at palamida_analyzer_task.run(palamida_analyzer_task.groovy:75)

Resolution

A bug for this issue has been reported under reference SCA-14890. The following workaround has been made available to allow the reports to be used:

- Rename analyzer.properties.example to analyzer.properties
- Add following property in analyzer.properties-

dataServicesUrl = https://api.palamida.io

- Restart FNCI
- Now the group builder and quick assessment reports from analyzer are working fine