Viewing Status Messages for the Identity Manager Driver for SIF

When configuring the driver, status messages can be viewed in the Driver Set Status Log, Publisher channel status log, Subscriber channel status log, or in the DSTrace screen. The status log contains error messages. The DSTrace screen contains a trace of the SIF Driver activity.

You can also set up logging using NsureTM Audit. See "Logging and Reporting Using Nsure Audit" in the Novell Nsure Identity Manager 2 Administration Guide.

In this section:


Using the Status Logs

To view messages in the Publisher or Subscriber status log:

  1. In Novell® iManager, click DirXML Management > Overview. Search for the driver set.

  2. Click the driver icon.

  3. In the page that appears showing the configuration for the driver, click the status log icon Status log icon for either the Publisher or Subscriber channel.

To view messages in the Driver Set status log:

  1. In Novell iManager, click DirXML Management > Overview. Search for the driver set.

  2. Click the status log icon Status log icon.

If you see errors you need to fix, you might want to clear the log so you can see which errors are new.

For a description of messages, see Error Messages.


Using the DSTrace Screen

To obtain SIF Driver traces:

  1. In the DSTrace window, click Edit > Options > Events > Clear All > select DirXML Drivers > Save Default > OK.

  2. In iManager, click DirXML Management > Overview. Search for the driver set, then click the driver object icon. On the driver parameters page that appears, click the Misc tab. Set the trace level to 3, then click Apply.

For information on using DSTrace, see the eDirectory 8.7.3 Administration Guide.


Identity Manager Status Levels

For each event or operation received from eDirectory, the driver returns an XML document containing a status report. If the status report does not indicate success, the document also contains a reason.The table in Error Messages contains error text returned by the driver to Nsure Identity Manager.

Possible values for levels are:

Here are examples of return status in the trace screen:

<status event-id="0" level="success"/><status event-id="0" level="warning">SIFdoes not support the Move operation.</status>