Dell Security Management Server Compatibility Server Generating a "CSS session not initialized"

Affected Products:

• Dell Security Management Server
• Dell Data Protection | Enterprise Edition

The Compatibility Server service fails to start, and the following can be observed in the service log: (\Program Files\Dell\Enterprise Edition\Compatibility Server\logs\output.log)

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ERROR Main [WrapperListener_start_runner] - Unable to create default remote gatekeeper group
CSS session not initialized
at com.credant.security.css.CssSession.<init>(CssSession.java:55)
at com.credant.security.css.CssSessionPool.acquire(CssSessionPool.java:63)
at com.credant.guardian.server.security.KeyMaterialGenerator.createPdaAuthCommonKeyBytes(KeyMaterialGenerator.java:155)
...
WARN org.springframework.context.support.FileSystemXmlApplicationContext [WrapperListener_start_runner] - Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'main' defined in file [C:\Program Files\Dell\Enterprise Edition\Compatibility Server\.\conf\spring-main.xml]:
Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is Unable to create default remote gatekeeper group: CSS session not initialized
...
at com.credant.guardian.tool.nt.service.ServiceWrapper.start(ServiceWrapper.java:38)
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Caused by: Unable to create default remote gatekeeper group: CSS session not initialized
at com.credant.guardian.server.FederatedService.Main.createDefaultGatekeeperGroups(Main.java:801)
...

This can occur if at some point the Encryption client was installed on the computer.

Look for a file called CmgCryptoLib.dll under Windows\System32 and rename it. The server then uses the version of the .dll available in the Compatibility Server service installation folder, and the service starts.

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