Error: Unable to locate administrator user in corporate dir AdminUI

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

 

When running an AdminUI, this one reports an error when an administrator tries to log in:

  2022-06-23 20:30:24,840 ERROR [ims.llsdk.role.azengine] (default task-1) Unable to locate administrator user in the corporate directory
  2022-06-23 20:30:24,840 [ERROR] ims.ui [] - com.netegrity.llsdk6.imsapi.exception.ImsRuntimeException
  com.netegrity.llsdk6.imsapi.exception.ImsRuntimeException: Unable to locate administrator user in the corporate directory
          at com.netegrity.llsdk6.imsimpl.securityengine.PolicyEngine.getAdministratorsTasks(PolicyEngine.java:1601) ~[imsapi6.jar:?]

 

Environment

 

  AdminUI 12.8SP5 on RedHat 7;
  Policy Server 12.8SP5 on RedHat 7;
  External Admin Store;

 

Resolution

 

Similar to changing the base_url for the AdminUI, the LDAP_SEARCH_ROOT can be modified (1):

• Take a backup of the entire repository:
  

     /installation_path/CA/siteminder/adminui/standalone/data

• Stop the AdminUI;
  
  
• Download db-derby-10.14.2.0-bin.tar.gz from https://db.apache.org/derby/releases/release-10_14_2_0.cgi
   

    [root@adminui ~]# cd /installation_path/db-derby-10.14.2.0-bin/bin
  
    [root@adminui bin]# export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk
  
    [root@adminui bin]# ./ij
  
    ij version 10.14
  
    ij> connect 'jdbc:derby:/installation_path/CA/siteminder/adminui/standalone/data/derby/siteminder/objectstore';
  
    ij> select LDAP_SEARCH_ROOT from IM_DIR_CONNECTION;
  
    LDAP_SEARCH_ROOT
  
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
    ou=Administrators,ou=SiteMinder,dc=ps,dc=example,dc=com
  
    1 row selected
  
    ij> update IM_DIR_CONNECTION set LDAP_SEARCH_ROOT = 'ou=Administrators,ou=SiteMinder,dc=ps,dc=example,dc=com';
  
    1 row inserted/updated/deleted
  
    ij> select LDAP_SEARCH_ROOT from IM_DIR_CONNECTION;
  
    LDAP_SEARCH_ROOT
  
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
    ou=Administrators,ou=SiteMinder,dc=ps,dc=example,dc=com
  
    1 row selected
  
    ij> commit;
  
    ij> disconnect;
  
    ij> exit;

• Start the AdminUI;
  
  

Then, the administrator should be able to log in to the AdminUI without any issues.

 

Additional Information

 

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