How to enable HTTPclient logging for CA Access Gateway (SPS)

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Introduction: 

How to enable HTTPclient logging for CA Access Gateway (SPS)

Environment

Release: All versions of CA Access Gateway (SPS)
Component: SMSPS

Cause

In order to see transactional information and runtime events of communication from the SPS to a backend application you would want to enable HTTPclient logging.

Resolution

Instructions:

1. Open the server.conf file found in \CA\secure-proxy\proxy-engine\conf\
2. Change httpclientlog from its default value of no to yes. Looks like httpclientlog=yes.
3. Also, ensure that httpclient.wire.header.level=FINEST and httpclient.wire.level=FINEST
4. Restart the secure proxy and proxy engine for the changes to take effect.
5. The httpclient.log file will now be present in \CA\secure-proxy\proxy-engine\logs\