Symante Directory: DSA startup fails with "Expect unique name" syntax error.

Products

• CA Directory

Issue/Introduction

Attempting to start DSA results into reporting syntax error on "Expected unique name".

e.g.
? [204] 20230714.095753.075 ERROR : Syntax Error: Line 1 in C:\Progam Files\CA\Directory\dxserver\config\knowledge\test_dsa.dxc near 'test_dsa'
Expected unique name

Environment

Release : 14.1

Resolution

Problem is due to the fact that you may be sourcing the KNOWLEDGE .dxc file twice (or multiple times) for the same DSA. Due to this, when the startup sequence reads the same file again, which already having a knowledge of this DSA when it was read the first time, the system reports this syntax error above on "Expected unique name".

Check your DSA initialization .dxi file under the SERVERS folder to make sure the KNOWLEDGE .dxc file for each DSA is only referenced (sourced) once (and not multiple times).