We are facing an issue wherein the Pega Application is not getting started. prweb application is deployed in weblogic. But the deployment goes into failed state and hence unable to access the application. I see below error in .out logs .

<Dec 4, 2024 1:10:30,669 PM CET> <Error> <Deployer> <BEA-149231> <Unable to set the activation state to true for the application "prweb". weblogic.application.ModuleException: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Missing DNODE_CASSANDRA_CLIENT_ENCRYPTION_OPTIONAL Setting metadata in 'prconfig-settings-metadata.yml' file. Kindly add it.         at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.start(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:140)         at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:124)         at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:233)         at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:228)         at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)         Truncated. Caused By: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Missing DNODE_CASSANDRA_CLIENT_ENCRYPTION_OPTIONAL Setting metadata in 'prconfig-settings-metadata.yml' file. Kindly add it.         at com.pega.pegarules.pub.PrConfigSettingsRegistry$PrConfigSetting.<init>(PrConfigSettingsRegistry.java:2601)         at com.pega.pegarules.pub.PrConfigSettingsRegistry$PrConfigSetting.<clinit>(PrConfigSettingsRegistry.java:1960)         at com.pega.platform.diagnostic.internal.DiagnosticConfiguration.<clinit>(DiagnosticConfiguration.java:44)         at com.pega.platform.modules.internal.guice.DiagnosticModule.<init>(DiagnosticModule.java:44)         at com.pega.platform.modules.internal.ModulesBridgeImpl.getModules(ModulesBridgeImpl.java:223)         Truncated.

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2024-12-04 08:10:12,722 [fault (self-tuning)'] [          ] [                    ] [                    ] (nal.DefaultConfigurationSource) INFO     - prconfig.xml merged with prconfig entries in Data-Admin-System-Settings Dec 04, 2024 8:10:13 AM com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.PRBootstrap  SEVERE: Problem during method invocation (contextInitialized) java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError     at com.pega.pegarules.session.internal.engineinterface.etier.impl.EngineStartup.initEngine(EngineStartup.java:418)     at com.pega.pegarules.session.internal.engineinterface.etier.impl.EngineImpl._initEngine_privact(EngineImpl.java:180)     at com.pega.pegarules.session.internal.engineinterface.etier.impl.EngineImpl.doStartup(EngineImpl.java:152)     at com.pega.pegarules.web.servlet.WebAppLifeCycleListener._contextInitialized_privact(WebAppLifeCycleListener.java:214)     at com.pega.pegarules.web.servlet.AbstractLifeCycleListener._contextInitialized_privact(AbstractLifeCycleListener.java:145)     at com.pega.pegarules.web.servlet.AbstractLifeCycleListener.contextInitialized(AbstractLifeCycleListener.java:76)     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)     at com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.PRBootstrap.invokeMethod(PRBootstrap.java:388)     at com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.PRBootstrap.invokeMethodPropagatingThrowable(PRBootstrap.java:430)     at com.pega.pegarules.boot.internal.extbridge.AppServerBridgeToPega.invokeMethodPropagatingThrowable(AppServerBridgeToPega.java:225)     at com.pega.pegarules.boot.internal.extbridge.AppServerBridgeToPega.invokeMethod(AppServerBridgeToPega.java:274)     at com.pega.pegarules.internal.web.servlet.WebAppLifeCycleListenerBoot.contextInitialized(WebAppLifeCycleListenerBoot.java:92)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager$FireContextListenerAction.run(EventsManager.java:719)     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:344)     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAsForUserCode(SecurityManager.java:197)     at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSecurityProvider.runAsForUserCode(WlsSecurityProvider.java:203)     at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:71)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.executeContextListener(EventsManager.java:251)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.notifyContextCreatedEvent(EventsManager.java:204)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.EventsManager.notifyContextCreatedEvent(EventsManager.java:189)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1929)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3194)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1884)     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:939)     at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:360)     at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper$StartStateChange.next(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:356)     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)     at weblogic.application.internal.ExtensibleModuleWrapper.start(ExtensibleModuleWrapper.java:138)     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:124)     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:233)     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:228)     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:78)     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:52)     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:752)     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:45)     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:262)     at weblogic.application.internal.SingleModuleDeployment.activate(SingleModuleDeployment.java:52)     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:165)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:90)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:631)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:171)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:121)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.StartOperation.doCommit(StartOperation.java:151)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:348)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:906)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1467)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:458)     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:181)     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:217)     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:14)     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:69)     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:681)     at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager._runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:352)     at weblogic.invocation.ComponentInvocationContextManager.runAs(ComponentInvocationContextManager.java:337)     at weblogic.work.LivePartitionUtility.doRunWorkUnderContext(LivePartitionUtility.java:57)     at weblogic.work.PartitionUtility.runWorkUnderContext(PartitionUtility.java:41)     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.runWorkUnderContext(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:655)     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:420)     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:360) Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create PRModulesProvider     at com.pega.pegarules.common.PREngineProvider.staticInit(PREngineProvider.java:230)     at com.pega.pegarules.common.PREngineProvider.access$000(PREngineProvider.java:77)     at com.pega.pegarules.common.PREngineProvider$1.runTask(PREngineProvider.java:140)     at com.pega.pegarules.common.PREngineProvider$1.runTask(PREngineProvider.java:137)     at com.pega.pegarules.internal.bootstrap.phase2.util.StartupTimeTracker$TimeTracker.trackTime(StartupTimeTracker.java:56)     at com.pega.pegarules.common.PREngineProvider.<clinit>(PREngineProvider.java:143)     ... 63 more Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)     at com.pega.pegarules.common.PREngineProvider.staticInit(PREngineProvider.java:228)     ... 68 more Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError     at com.pega.platform.diagnostic.internal.DiagnosticConfiguration.<clinit>(DiagnosticConfiguration.java:44)     at com.pega.platform.modules.internal.guice.DiagnosticModule.<init>(DiagnosticModule.java:44)     at com.pega.platform.modules.internal.ModulesBridgeImpl.getModules(ModulesBridgeImpl.java:223)     at com.pega.platform.modules.internal.ModulesBridgeImpl.<init>(ModulesBridgeImpl.java:207)     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)     at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)     at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)     at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)     at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)     at com.pega.platform.modules.PRModulesProvider.initialize(PRModulesProvider.java:37)     ... 73 more Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Missing DNODE_CASSANDRA_CLIENT_ENCRYPTION_OPTIONAL Setting metadata in 'prconfig-settings-metadata.yml' file. Kindly add it.     at com.pega.pegarules.pub.PrConfigSettingsRegistry$PrConfigSetting.<init>(PrConfigSettingsRegistry.java:2601)     at com.pega.pegarules.pub.PrConfigSettingsRegistry$PrConfigSetting.<clinit>(PrConfigSettingsRegistry.java:1960)     ... 83 more