CA IM 14.2 Self Service Registration Failed to execute SelfRegisterUserEvent. ERROR MESSAGE: AttributeValidationException:Bad attribute specified

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal

Issue/Introduction

CA IM 14.2 Running on Windows 2016, Using out of the box feature Self Registration. After fill up the related attributes, then submit. Error return "Failed to execute SelfRegisterUserEvent. ERROR MESSAGE: AttributeValidationException:Bad attribute specified"

Environment

CA Identity Manager 14.2 virtual appliance

Cause

The issue is due to some mandatory fields are missing from user object creation

Resolution

The key points are:
1. the SelfRegistrationProfile screen should gather default User Organization value
2. the User Organization value should be a DN, for example: ou=im,ou=ca,o=com
3. the Full Name filed should be a mandatory field and can't be blank.