Enabling Policy Server tracing with customized components and data fields.

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On
• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

Instructions on how to enable Policy Server tracing with customized components and data fields.

Resolution

With SmConsole

1. Open the smconsole and go to the PROFILER tab.
   
   
2. ENABLE the “Enable Profiling” check box.
   
   
3. Under OUTPUT, enable the “output to file” checkbox and select a location for the Policy Server trace file.
   
   (NOTE: The locations shown in the snapshots are the DEFAULT locations.)
   
   
4. After the above 3 steps are completed, click on “Configure Settings”
   
   
   
   
5. To gather maximum information, select all the components and move them to the right side “Selected Components" section.
   
   (NOTE: If you wish to capture any specific component information, you can add only that component, instead of all.)
   
   
   
   
6. Click on the “DATA” tab.
   
   
7. On this tab, select all the DATA fields and move them to the right side “Selected Data Fields" section.
   
   
   
   
8. Click Apply and OK.
   
   Once all the above steps are implemented, a new smtracedefault.log file will be created.
   
   (NOTE: The changes made to the profiler take effect dynamically. A Policy Server restart is not necessary.)

Without SmConsole

1. Refer to this KB Article to turn on Policy Server tracing.
   
   How to start SiteMinder smps trace without using SM console
   
   
2. To add all the COMPONENTS & DATA FIELDS (which will capture maximum information), edit the smtracedefault.txt file located under <Install_Dir>\CA\siteminder\config.
   
   
3. Copy the below config data and paste it into your smtracedefault.txt file
   
   components: AgentFunc, Server, IsProtected, Login_Logout, IsAuthorized, Tunnel_Service, JavaAPI, Directory_Access, ODBC, LDAP, IdentityMinder, TXM, Fed_Server, SharePointAgent, DLP
   
   data: Date, PreciseTime, Time, Pid, Tid, SrcFile, Function, TransactionID, AgentName, Resource, User, Group, Realm, Domain, Directory, Policy, AgentType, Rule, ErrorValue, ReturnValue, ErrorString, IPAddr, IPPort, Result, Returns, CallDetail, Data, Message, ResponseTime, ObjectClass, DomainOID, SearchKey, ObjectOID, Property, AuthStatus, AuthReason, AuthScheme, CertSerial, SubjectDN, IssuerDN, SessionSpec, SessionID, CertDistPt, UserDN, Action, RealmOID, State, ClusterID, HandleCount, FreeHandleCount, BusyHandleCount, Throughput, MaxThroughput, MinThroughput, Threshold, TransactionName, Query, ActiveExpr, RequestIPAddr, Expression, CacheHits, CacheSize, RefCount, ExecutionTime, Tenant
   
   version: 1.1
   
   
4. Save and exit.