Logging field descriptions for the authorization, authentication and administrative events in SitMinder smaccess.log file/ smaccesslog4 table.

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Description

I'm running SiteMinder Policy server 6 and I'm auditing to a text file, however I do not understand the format of the authorization, authentication and administrative events in the smaccess.log file.

Do you have any documentation about Audit Events?

Solution

The following documents will give a quick reference for all authorization, authentication and administrative events.

Logging_field_descriptions (ODBC)
Logging field descriptions smaccesslog4

For more information, please check SiteMinder Developer's Guide for C Chapter 7: Authentication API, 8: Authorization API and 9: Event API.

Environment

Release:
Component: SMPLC