As most people have probably heard by now, a serious vulnerability related to the use of Log4j has been discovered. It didn’t impact any of our SiteMinder customers, but they were still required by their management to mitigate the issue. Broadcom published a resolution to
A customer recently implemented a new SAML partnership and the new partnership requires several multi-value attributes to be included in the assertion. One of the values being included exceeds the default attribute length of 1024 characters allowed by SiteMinder.
In this week’s post, we will provide a simple JSP page that we use to validate that SiteMinder protected applications are receiving the required headers. Overview We are often asked: “How can we be sure that we have properly configured our SiteMinder policies to support
This week we have a post about troubleshooting a new CAG 12.8.04 deployment on RHEL 8. As always, we present the reported issue, what we found during troubleshooting, and how the problem was remedied. Issue CA Access Gateway (CAG) on RHEL 8: 503 Error After
In another installment of the troubleshooting IAM system issues series, this week we have a post about fixing failed web services calls that use a cookieless session scheme. As always, we present the reported issue, what we found during troubleshooting, and how the problem was remedied.
In this post, we will enumerate indirect contributors to poor authorization performance.
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
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