Waring message: WARN : Setting pswitch to autodetect StartTLS protocol

Products

• CA Directory
• CA Service Operations Insight (SOI)

Issue/Introduction

You may see the following WARN message in DSA warning log and wonder what it means.

WARN : Setting pswitch to autodetect StartTLS protocol"

Environment

Release : 14.1

Component : CA Directory

Embedded Entitlements Manager

EEM 12.x

Resolution

This is more of an informational message to indicate that the communication is switching from plain text to secure (SSL/TLS).
StartTLS command is a directive that instructs the communication to switch to SSL.
If you are binding to an LDAP/AD using SSL/TLS, then it is common to see this message as the application requests a SSL (TLS) connection.

In fact, this is not to be considered as a WARNING, as this message is just appraising us of a change of connection state.

Additional Information

on EEM, these messages are seen in

C:\Program Files\CA\Directory\dxserver\logs\itechpoz_warn_date.log

E.G.

[244] 20220304.130320.930 WARN : Setting pswitch to autodetect StartTLS protocol
[228] 20220304.130322.033 WARN : Setting pswitch to autodetect StartTLS protocol
[240] 20220304.130323.325 WARN : Setting pswitch to autodetect StartTLS protocol
[236] 20220304.130324.418 WARN : Setting pswitch to autodetect StartTLS protocol