Failed to get the DD Reference for an Attribute

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

We are unable to access some or all functionality for Federation in the Administrative UI. We are able to access the policies and infrastructure without any problems, however only the Federation portion is giving us problems.

 

We see the following in the smps logs when we try to access the Federation functionality of the AdminUI:

[6121/-396674192][Thu May 25 2017 18:04:11][XPSSvcHandlerManageObjects.cpp:669][CreateObject][ERROR][sm-xpssvc-00140] Failed to get the DD Reference for an Attribute, Attr = CA.FED::SPPartnership.SecureAuthURL, Vendor = CA, Prod = FED, Class = PartnershipBase 

[6121/-396674192][Thu May 25 2017 18:04:11][XPSSvcHandlerManageObjects.cpp:677][CreateObject][ERROR][sm-xpssvc-00690] Failed to set the value for an Attribute, Attr = CA.FED::SPPartnership.SecureAuthURL, Vendor = CA, Prod = FED, Class = PartnershipBase 

 

Cause

The XPS Data Dictionary files for Federation are, for some reason, either unavailable or corrupted. 

Environment

Applies to all Supported Single Sign On Environments.

Resolution

1.Import XPS objects by executing the following in the siteminder_home\xps\dd folder in that order : 

     XPSDDInstall SmObjects.xdd

     XPSDDInstall FssSmObjects.xdd

     XPSDDInstall SOAObjects objects

     XPSDDInstall SoaSmObjects.xdd

     XPSDDInstall EPMObjects.xdd

     XPSDDInstall CDSObjects.xdd

     XPSDDInstall FedObjects.xdd

     XPSDDInstall SecCat.xdd

     XPSDDInstall SPSObjects.xdd

     XPSDDInstall CHSObjects.xdd

or run 

    

     XPSDDInstall SmMaster.xdd 

2.Run xpssweeper.exe 

3.Stop the SM WAMUI service 

4.Remove WAMUI trusted host using XPSExplorer 

5.Delete directory $ADMINUI$/server/default/data/derby and $ADMINUI$/server/default/data/siteminder 

6.Run xpsregclient siteminder:<password> -adminui-setup 

7.Start SM WAMUI service