Authentication error using cURL to verify Red Hat Decision Server 7.2 installation

Issue

• When using the recommended cURL command to verify the Decision Server installation on Tomcat 8.5, received Access Denied/Your credentials could not be authenticated: "Credentials are missing." error. The credential are correctly setup.
• kie-server fails to startup on JWS

• Exceptions found in tomcat logs when deploying Decision Server kie-server

  org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal One or more listeners failed to start.`
  

  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
      org.jboss.narayana.tomcat.jta.NarayanaJtaServletContextListener
  

When using below curl command to verify the installation of Decision Server:

$ curl -X GET "http://localhost:8088/kie-server/services/rest/server" -H "accept: application/xml" -u 'username:password'

The response is similar to these below (abbreviated):

<TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE>
...
<big>Access Denied (authentication_failed)</big>
...
Your credentials could not be authenticated: "Credentials are missing.". You will not be permitted access until your credentials can be verified.

<title>Apache Tomcat/8.0.36 - Error report</title>
...
<h1>HTTP Status 401 - </h1>
...
This request requires HTTP authentication.

<title>HTTP Status 401 – Unauthorized</title>
...
<h1>HTTP Status 401 – Unauthorized</h1>
...
The request has not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the target resource./