In this week’s article, we will examine the best logs for auditing user activity across your SiteMinder environment. Audit logs can provide a great amount of detail that can be used to analyze user behavior and application access patterns.
Purpose We were asked to implement a mechanism that would be able to accommodate a communications failure or email server outage when Identity Manager (IDM) attempts to send emails. As this kind of email scheduling can be used in a variety of use cases, we
In this post, we will enumerate indirect contributors to poor authorization performance.
As part of a new series of posts around hidden SiteMinder operational issues, this week we have a post about authentication requests from valid users being rejected. In each article, we will present the reported issue, what we found during troubleshooting, and how to problem
In this article, we will walk the reader through configuring Auth0 as an Identity Provider (IdP) and SiteMinder as the Service Provider (SP). Create Enterprise Connection in Auth0 Navigate to the Enterprise option under Connections in the Auth0 dashboard. Select Create (+) on SAML option.
One of the most difficult things to do with SiteMinder is determine the root cause of poor authorization (Az) performance. In this post, we will enumerate the direct contributors to poor Az performance and we will post a second article later that provides details about
Some of our customers have very active Identity Manager (IdM) environments which process thousands of tasks per hour. Identity Manager provides a stored procedure for task cleanup, but depending on the DB size and available temp space this task would fail and the database would
In production environments, it’s important to ensure proper configuration management is maintained at all times, but troubleshooting some issues requires different levels of logging. In a properly controlled environment, a change request may be needed to increase the logging or enable the profiler. Its best
You can significantly enhance the performance of Symantec SiteMinder authentications for LDAP-based user directories. SiteMinder is an I/O bound product, meaning that constrained I/O performance has a significant impact on the performance of the product. As a result, network latency or disk I/O can reduce
