While preparing for the upgrade of FileNet from 4.0 to 5.1 we decided to upgrade WebSphere in the existing development environment from 7.0 to 8.0. We therefore uninstalled WAS, and left all other FileNet installation as is. While reapplying all FileNet configuration to the new WAS installation we got a problem with the Content Engine. The CE System Health page reports problems and both the p8_server_error.log and p8_server_trace.log was constantly filling up with enormous amounts of data. The errors being repeated was (showing only parts of it)
FNRCE0010E - ERROR method name: masterDecryptDecode principal name: xxxUSERNAMExxxx Global Transaction: false User Transaction.....
FNRCE0010E: E_BAD_VALUE: The value given for a property or list element lies outside the permitted range or value set...
It turned out to be caused by a change of admin uid. Initally the environment was installed using uid X, but at a given time it was decided to change it to uid Y. Since the CE ear-file was configured using X and we tried to use uid Y this was causing the error. ECM Place to the rescue, see P8 CE 4.5.1 on W2K3 x64 broke?.
List out and later reapply new user using the following commands
java -jar <CE>\lib\bootstraps.jar -e <old ear file> -l
java -jar <CE>\lib\bootstraps.jar -e <old ear file> -j <new ear file>