Do we need a Sharepoint Agent licence on the Policy Server box?

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Description:

In order to run have a sharepoint agent that connects to a policy server in a production environment, you may have the following lines in the smps.log when a sharepoint agent tries to connect:

[2611/2812406672][Tue Jul 23 2013 10:11:05][SPLicenseCheck.cpp:124][INFO] No valid license found for SharePoint Agent connected from ::ffff:10.118.36.129. Total agents connected 1.

Solution:

There should be an entry for the Agent for Sharepoint in the License.dat file.

FEATURE CA_SHAREPOINT_AGENT

Please verify with licensing, they will be able to provide you the information to paste in your license.dat file

Environment

Release: SOASMU99000-12.5-SOA Security Manager-Upgrade
Component: