Keystore Generation Failed in Informatica Server Installation

Sometimes during informatica server installation, the informatica installer fails to generate the keystore and will result in an error message as mentioned below

Keystore generation failed                       

To overcome this issue, we can generate the keystore manually. The steps to generate the keystore is as mentioned below :

1) Navigate to the folder where JAVA is installed in your system.

For example : C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21\jre\bin

Here you could find the key tool utility as shown in the screenshot below.

2)Go to Start --> cmd --> cd C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21\jre\bin

3)The command to generate the keystore file is as mentioned below

keytool -genkey -alias infkey -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -keystore infkey.keystore

4) Give a password for the keystore and fill in other details

NB : Give the host name of the system when it prompts you for your first name and last name