Can not get work PCs to access Cisco PIX PDM properly

[Homerboy]

When I try to log into the Cisco java admin console for our PIX firewall, it only works on one machine. On any other machine I attempt the login, I get a java exception error in IE and the following in the java console:

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.lang.RuntimePermission createClassLoader)
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkCreateClassLoader(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.cisco.nm.util.sgz.JPClassLoader.<init>(JPClassLoader.java:35)
at com.cisco.nm.util.sgz.Env.createClassLoader(Env.java:16)
at com.cisco.nm.util.sgz.Loader.init(Loader.java:86)
at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)


The only machine it does work on is an old win2k machine that likely hasn't had any java updates in forever.

Does ANYONE have any suggestions? I'm really stuck here.

 

[yinan]

Use SSH

 

[jlazzaro]

i knew this felt like deja vu

certain pdm and newer java versions arent compatible. try java 1.4.2_03 or upgrade your pdm. refer here for your pdm release notes and the incompatibilities.

 

[p0lar]

PDM... <shudder>

In its earlier versions, I caused a nice fat network outage by trying to make a small modification to some NAT rules about 6 years ago... the concept I was enabling was correct, motions were correct -- PDM execution was NOT.

I was sweating bullets until I got a console to the #$@*% thing, never used it again after that.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: jlazzaro
i knew this felt like deja vu

certain pdm and newer java versions arent compatible. try java 1.4.2_03 or upgrade your pdm. refer here for your pdm release notes and the incompatibilities.

gah! thats right I posted before. You know me better than me I guess.
PDM is 3.02
I'll snag that version of java and see what happens