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Issue/Introduction
How to avoid the following messages in the smps.log:
Bad security handshake attempt. Handshake error: 3154
Resolution
Here are the possible ways to investigate each error:
This error might appear if the LDAP User Directory closes the connection (1).
This issue happens when the Web Agent closes the connection and Policy Server has not received the info to close the connection (2). To help prevent that, consider implementing SM_ENABLE_TCP_KEEPALIVE (3).
This error means the data is not found in the Session Store (4). This error message might appear if there is a mixture of persistent and non-persistent realms in the environment (5).
Investigate with the LDAP vendor the reasons for this. It may be a configuration problem on the LDAP side (6).
This error means that the shared secret and/or the agent name does not match with the values from the Policy Store for that given Agent. Usually, the solution is to register the Agent again (7)(8)(9)(10)(11).