Novell Modular Authentication Service (NMAS)

How to capture a NMAS Client trace
How to capture a NMAS client side trace
NMAS client trace
Universal Smart Card logging
Universal Smart Card Method trace
pcProx Method trace

There are many NMAS Client trace options. The NMAS Client trace can be used with most methods and can be helpful debugging an NMAS Client authentication. Note: Some methods have their own tracing, above and beyond the NMAS client trace option.

The following steps explain how to capture an NMAS Client and NMAS method trace.

NMAS Client Trace using NMAS Client 3.2 (and greater)(shipped with Novell Client 4.91 SP2 - Jan '06)

NMAS Client 3.2 uses NCC.EXE to configure trace. NCC, which stands for NMAS Client Configuration, is a command prompt utility. Open a command prompt by selecting Start | Run | and type "cmd".

NCC commands:

ncc -h==> display help
ncc -i==> display client build/version information

NMAS Client, Win32
version: 3.2.0.16
build date: Dec 7, 2005

Command to turn on tracing:
ncc -ta status=on mode=append file=C:\nmclient.log==>This command adds tracing configuration, client will write trace information to log file.

Command to verify tracing info:
ncc -ti==>This command shows tracing info

==== Trace Info: ====
status : on
mode : append
file : c:\nmclient.log

Command to turn off tracing:
ncc -tr==> This command removes tracing configuration, stops tracing
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NMAS Client Trace using NMAS Client 3.0(shipped with Novell Client 4.91 - Feb '05)

NMAS trace is not available in the NMAS 3.0 client. NMAS Client tracing was reintroduced with NMAS Client 3.0.1 and greater. Please see NMAS Client Trace using NMAS Client 3.2 above for instructions
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NMAS Client Trace using NMAS Client 2.7

Open the Novell Client Properties | Choose Location Profiles tab | select "Default" (or applicable Location) and select properties | Select properties once more | go to the NMAS tab and select the "Log NMAS Client Activity" | Select the "Log file" button and specify where the log file will be located. It recommend to put this file on the desktop and call it NMAS.LOG | Select ok.

Reboot your workstation after making these changes.

NOTE: These steps will only work with NMAS v2.x so if the Novell client version is 4.91 these steps will not work.
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Universal Smart Card Method Trace

Verify there is a folder called C:\temp on the workstation, if there is not, create this directory.

To enable the Universal Smart Card trace, it is necessary to edit the Windows registry. Do the following:

Start | Run... | Regedit | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Novell | NMAS | MethodData | Universal SmartCard
create a new dword by Right Clicking | New | DWord Value | name the new DWord Value "Trace Enabled" and set the Value data to 1

This will create a file called univsc.log in the C:\temp directory

Reboot your workstation after making these changes.
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pcProx Method Trace

To enable the pcProx trace, it is necessary to edit the Windows registry. Do the following:

Start | Run... | Regedit | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Novell | NMAS | MethodData | PcProx
create the following two new dword values by Right Clicking | New | DWord Value | name the new DWord Value

"debug" with  Value data to 1

"debugLog" with Value data set to 1

The folder C:\pcProxLog will be created, and will contain the generated log files.
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To capture a NMAS Server trace see "How to capture a NMAS Server Trace - TID3815371"

Formerly known as TID# 10092531