Article - CS364697

"Application Key not found" WARN message in SecurityLog of ThingWorx Platform

Modified: 17-Jul-2025   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 8.0 to 9.5
  • Windchill Navigate (formerly ThingWorx Navigate) 9.4

Description

  • ThingWorx <ThingworxStorage>\logs\SecurityLog.log repeatedly report below warning messages
    • [L: WARN] [O: S.c.t.s.m.ApplicationKeyManager] [I: ] [U: ???] [S: ] [P: ] [T: http-nio-80-exec-8] *** ApplicationKey not found ***
      [L: WARN] [O: S.c.t.s.m.NonceKeyManager] [I: ] [U: ???] [S: ] [P: ] [T: http-nio-80-exec-8] *** NonceKey not found ***
  • [L: WARN] [O: S.c.t.s.m.ApplicationKeyManager] [I: ] [U: ???] [S: ] [P: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-443-exec-129] *** ApplicationKey not found ***
    [L: ERROR] [O: S.c.t.s.m.NonceKeyManager] [I: ] [U: ???] [S: ] [P: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-443-exec-129] Rejecting NonceKey [<Key ID>] since it was not found in cache
  • ThingWorx <ThingworxStorage>\logs\ApplicationLog.log repeatedly report below errors
    • [L: ERROR] [O: c.t.c.p.m.DispatchingServerCommunicationModule] [I: ] [U: ???] [S: ] [P: ] [T: WSExecutionProcessor-50] Authentication request failed!
    • [L: ERROR] [O: c.t.c.p.m.DispatchingServerCommunicationModule] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [P: ] [T: http-nio-80-exec-8] Missing application key!
      [L: ERROR] [O: c.t.c.s.c.j.Jsr356ServerConnection] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [P: ] [T: http-nio-80-exec-8] Error [authenticating connection], Server websocket will be closed. cause: Missing application key!
  • ThingWorx Tomcat  localhost_caccess_log repeatedly report below errors
    • xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [dd/MM/yyyy:hh:mm:ss +0800] "GET /Thingworx/WS HTTP/1.1" 101 -
      xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [dd/MM/yyyy:hh:mm:ss +0800] "POST /Thingworx/Resources/EntityServices/Services/GetClientApplicationKey?Accept=application%2Fjson-compressed&_twsr=1&Content-Type=application%2Fjson HTTP/1.1" 401 -
  • Where NonceKey come from?
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