Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI transition from Oracle Client JRE To Amazon Corretto OpenJDK

Description

Oracle Corporation is discontinuing support of JRE version 1.8 effective end-March 2022.

Veritas Infoscale does not include any components/products whose support is discontinued. As these components introduce a security vulnerability. It is necessary to replace Oracle JRE in Infoscale installers.

The following patches replace the existing Oracle JRE with Amazon Corretto OpenJDK from InfoScale installation.

• InfoScale 7.4.1 : https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD589046
• InfoScale 7.4.2: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD123183
• InfoScale 8.0: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD629679

To Install the Patch:

1.       Close all VEA GUI instances on the destination server.

2.       Download the patch depending on the Infoscale version of the destination server and extract it. 

3.       From the extracted folder, browse to the patches folder and run the Patch_x_x_xxxxx_x_xxxxxxx_x64.exe using Run as Administrator to install the patch on the InfoScale server.

NOTE: This will replace the \jre folder in \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\ path with \jdk folder along with the registry and DLL path upgrades to complete the transition to Amazon Corretto OpenJDK

4.       Open VEA GUI and connect to the server.

To Uninstall the Patch:

1.       Close all VEA GUI Instances on the destination server.

2.       Open Control Panel, click Add or Remove Program or Programs & Features then click View Installed Updates. All fixes applied to products are listed.

3.       Select the patch installed from Step #3 of To Install the Patch section

4.       Click Uninstall.

NOTE: This will revert the \jre folder in \Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\ path and delete all the registry and DLL path upgrades that were performed as a part of the Patch install. 

Supported InfoScale Versions

7.4.1, 7.4.2, 8.0

Supported JDK Versions

Amazon Corretto OpenJDK 1.8.0_322 (x86)

 

How to check JRE/JDK version available in InfoScale installation?

With Oracle JRE in place, browse to the folder C:\Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jre\bin and execute the command java -version to get the version of JRE used.

Once the patch is installed,  browse to the folder C:\Program Files\Veritas\Veritas Object Bus\jdk\bin and execute the command java -version to get the version of Amazon Corretto OpenJDK used.