Error: Failed DD Reference for an Attribute IMSEnvironmentsLink

Products

• CA Directory
• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Security Command Center
• SITEMINDER
• ACE

Issue/Introduction

 

When running the AdminUI (WAM UI), this one is unable to create SiteMinder Domains.

The smps.log file and the Policy Server trace files show the following errors:

[08/28/2012][10:14:14.274][10:14:14][2336][3724][][XPS][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][LogMessage:ERROR: Failed to get the DD Reference for an Attribute, Attr = CA.SM::Domain.IMSEnvironmentsLink, Vendor = CA, Prod = SM, Class = Domain]

[08/28/2012][10:14:14.274][10:14:14][2336][3724][][XPS][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][LogMessage:ERROR: Failed to set the value for an Attribute, Attr = CA.SM::Domain.IMSEnvironmentsLink, Vendor = CA, Prod = SM, Class = Domain]

[08/28/2012][10:14:14.274][10:14:14][2336][3724][][XPS][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][LogMessage:ERROR: Failed Create Operation]   

[08/28/2012][10:14:14.274][10:14:14][2336][3724][][XPS][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][LogMessage:ERROR: Cannot Process the Request.]

This happens when running Policy Server with a Policy Store for which extensions were updated (1).

The error above can happen if:

• SiteMinder Policy Server was extended to support Identity Manager
  
  (running the IDM installer on the Siteminder machine)
  
  
• The IdmSmObjects.xdd was not imported.

In this situation, the Policy Server expects to find the objects/attributes related to the Identity Manager in the schema (such as Domain.IDMEnvironmentsLink above) but won't find them and fail on the reference error above.

 

Environment

 

Policy Server 12.8SP5;
Identity Manager 14;

 

Resolution

 

Make sure to import the siteminder_home\xps\dd\IdmSmObjects.xdd DD Data Definitions in the Policy Store to solve the issue.

Once the DD Data Definitions are imported, make sure the Policy Server is fully restarted.

 

Additional Information

 

(1)

    Import Data Definitions into the Policy Store