IBM Connections 5.5 CR2 - CCM Upgrade does not complete " the deploy application task has one or more blank passwords "

This week I wanted to install CR2 in my test envoirnment.
IBM Connections upgrade worked perfectly but the CCM upgrade stopped working after around 20 minutes.
Checking the "fn-ce-update.log" actually showed the cause for the problem immediatly:

"C:\IBM\Connections\FileNet\ContentEngine\tools\configure\configmgr_cl" execute -task deployapplication -profile CCM
The Deploy Application task has one or more blank passwords:
Application server administrator password

Do you want to specify these passwords now (passwords will not be saved to disk and will only be used to run the task) (yes/no)? [no]

Wait, what?  I didn't provide this information....
 
Searching on the web, Google directed me to the blog of Nico Meisenzahl . He provided a easy solution for this problem:

• navigate to \FileNet\ContentEngine\tools\configure\profiles\CCM\
• edit "applicationserver.xml"
• look for <property name="ApplicationServerAdminPassword">

• and set the right value for the property -  <value>MYADMINPW</value> 

 You will also have to do this for the CEClient-script (\FNCS\configure\profiles\CCM\applicationserver.xml) if you are performing a update/rollback for this component.

During updates I am always using "baretail" to check the progress of the upgrades. This may spare you much time. Otherwise you will wait more than 1 hour and nothing further will happen.


Hope this will help you.


Happy New Year !

Jan