Sentinel Control Center shortcut no longer works after applying Sentinel SP1 Hotfix2

  • 7004447
  • 15-Sep-2009
  • 26-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell Sentinel 6.1 Sentinel Control Center
Microsoft Windows

Situation

(This is a known issue please refer to the 6.1 SP1 Hotfix2 read me)

After Applying Sentinel 6.1 Hot Fix2 the shortcut from the desktop will come up with a Java error.

" No Java Runtime Enviroment (JRE) was found on this system. A Suitable JVM could not be found. Please select a JVM by selecting it's Java.exe

"the error box is searching the system for Java 1.5.0. hot fix 2 upgraded Java to 1.6."

Resolution

Known Issues in Sentinel 6.1 SP1 Hotfix 2:

Sentinel Control Center (SCC) and Sentinel Solution Designers (SSD) launchers (shortcuts) do not launch the respective Sentinel applications on Windows.

Workaround:
For SCC, right-click the shortcut icon > select Properties > Shortcut > replace the ...\control_center.exe file extension with ...\control_center.bat in the Target field.

For SSD, right-click the shortcut icon > select Properties > Shortcut> replace the ...\solution_designer.exe file extension with ...\solution_designer.bat in the Target field.