10.1 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 Novell Audit. See Integrating Identity Manager with Novell Audit in the Identity Manager 3.5.1 Logging and Reporting .

In this section:

10.1.1 Using the Status Logs

To view messages in the Publisher or Subscriber status log:

  1. In Novell iManager, click Identity Manager > Identity Manager 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 Log Icon for either the Publisher or Subscriber channel.

To view messages in the Driver Set status log:

  1. In Novell iManager, click Identity Manager > Identity Manager Overview. Search for the driver set.

  2. Click the status log icon 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 Section 10.2, Error Messages.

10.1.2 Using the DSTrace Screen

To obtain SIF Driver traces:

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

  2. In iManager, click Identity Manager > Identity Manager 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 about view the driver processes, see Section 10.5, Troubleshooting Driver Processes.

10.1.3 Identity Manager Status Levels

For each event or operation received from the Identity Vault, 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 Section 10.2, Error Messages contains error text returned by the driver to Identity Manager.

Possible values for levels are:

  • Success: The operation or event was successful.

  • Warning: The operation was not successful, but can be ignored without consequences.

  • Error: The operation failed.

  • Fatal: A fatal error occurred, and the driver will be shut down.

  • Retry: The ZIS is unavailable. Identity Manager retries the operation every 30 seconds.

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>