Bug ID 1966341: License reactivation fails on BIG-IQ with SSLException

Last Modified: Sep 02, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Device(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
8.3.0

Opened: Jun 09, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Reactivating a license on BIG-IQ fails with below error in restjavad logs: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Certificate at host activate.f5.com is not trusted. Please verify the host is correct, and set up SSL Certificate Verification settings for the server certificate or one of its trust chain certificates.

Impact

Unable to reactivate the license

Conditions

License Reactivation

Workaround

Copy the pem file SSLcom-RootCA-EV-RSA-4096-R2.pem from https://www.ssl.com/repository/SSLcom-RootCAs.zip to /shared folder of BIG-IQ Log in to BIG-IQ shell as the root user and execute the following commands mount /usr -o remount,rw cd /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/ ./keytool -import -trustcacerts -file "/shared/SSLcom-RootCA-EV-RSA-4096-R2.pem" -keystore "../jre/lib/security/cacerts" -alias "SSLactivateRSAR2" -storepass "changeit" -noprompt mount /usr -o remount,ro tmsh restart /sys service restjavad After the BIG-IQ restjavad restart, the SSLException should be fixed.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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