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Scans fail with the error message 'Unable to Communicate with codeaware 400'

Scans fail with the error message 'Unable to Communicate with codeaware 400'

Symptoms:

- Scans fail with the error message 'Unable to Communicate with codeaware 400'

- Scan failure happens with codeaware not able to scan

Diagnosis:

Though Scanner and Core are on the same server, the scanner was not able to communicate with the core and 

Solution:

1. Please rename the scanner to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as the server

2. Please proceed with the following

  1. Generate keystore jks file (from tomcat location),

    keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias codeinsightLH -keystore codeinsightLH.jks -storepass changeit -validity 360 -keysize 2048 -ext san=dns:localhost
  2. Export the generated certificate in codeinsightLH.jks to file __ codeinsightLH.cer,

    keytool -export -alias codeinsightLH -storepass changeit -file codeinsightLH.cer -keystore codeinsightLH.jks
  3. Trust the certificate and perform an import

    keytool -import -file codeinsightLH.cer -alias codeinsightLH -keystore ../jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit

    Start Tomcat and now user will be able to create scanner with' localhost' as host.
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‎Mar 27, 2020 07:29 PM
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