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Defects Fixed in 12.52

Event Library File Documentation (178452)

Symptom:

Information about adding an Event Library file (eventsnmp.dll) while using a monitoring service to monitor the Policy Server, was not available.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The Policy Server Administration Guide has been updated.

STAR Issue: 21567951;1

Apache Process Aborts on Accessing login.fcc File (177053)

Symptom:

The Apache process aborts on accessing the login.fcc file using an incorrect path.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21565391-1

Create Partnership Drop-down Not Displaying Properly (176737)

Symptom:

The Create Partnership drop-down menu is not displayed properly in the Administrative UI.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21556418;1

Information to Upgrade r12 Policy Server is Unclear (176533)

Symptom:

The Upgrade Guide does not have clear instructions about how to upgrade an r12.x Policy Server to 12.52 SP1 when smkeydatabase is in use.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The Migration Considerations section of the Upgrade Guide has been updated.

STAR Issue: 21535336-1

Administrative UI Not Working After Upgrade (176504)

Symptom:

On upgrading the Administrative UI to 12.51, the Administrative UI is not working properly.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21275704-3

The Administrative UI Failed while Manipulating Federation Partnerships (175622)

Symptom:

The Administrative UI slowed down and failed with an AGENTAPI_FAILURE while manipulating Federation partnerships.

Solution:

This problem is fixed.

Star issue 21493650-1.

Authorization Fails with EPM Application (175148)

Symptom:

If the role uses BELOW and if the user directories are configured in the load balancing mode, authorization fails with the EPM application,

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21517922-1

Administrative UI Added an Extra Pair of Parenthesis on the LDAP Notation (174905)

Symptom:

When a user tried to add users to a Domain Policy, the Administrative UI was adding an extra pair of parenthesis on the LDAP Notation.

Solution:

The JavaScript code now only adds parenthesis in a complex LDAP expression.

Star issue 21506542-1.

The smkeytool Was Not Importing Two Files in R12.51 cr01 (174693)

Symptom:

Smkeytool was generating an error while running the following command:

smkeytool.sh -addprivkey -alias testcert -keyfile SampleAppPrivKey.key -certfile SampleAppCert.crt

This command worked in previous versions.

Solution:

This issue has been corrected.

Star issue 21514671.

Latin ISO Users in AD/AD LDS User Store Were not Able to Authenticate (174354/172053)

Symptom:

The Policy Server authenticated English users without any issues. Non English users, however, in AD with AD namespace were not authenticated

Solution:

This is no longer a problem.

Star issue 21430448;1.

VLV Indexing on Some LDAP User Directories Causes SiteMinder Agent Group Lookups to Fail (174279)

Symptom:

Flaws in the Virtual List View (VLV) implementation on some LDAP user directories can cause SiteMinder Agent group lookups to fail, returning zero entries and raising a “directory unwilling to perform" error.

Solution:

If you experience SiteMinder Agent group lookup failures as described, disable VLV lookups on the Policy Server.

Create the registry key EnableVLV of type DWORD at the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Netegrity\Siteminder\CurrentVersion\DS\LDAPProvider
EnableVLV

Disables or enables VLV for LDAP directory lookups. To disable VLV, set EnableVLV to 0. To enable VLV, set EnableVLV to 1.

Values: 0 (disabled) or 1 (enabled).

Default: 1 (enabled).

STAR issue: 20397633-1

Upgrade Results in Suddden Spike in CPU Usage (174236)

Symptom:

Upgrading from r6 to 12.51 results in the smpolicysrv process using 100 percentage of CPU usage.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21507336;1

CA SiteMinder® Web Services Documentation (173173)

Symptom:

The URLs to load the WSDL and WADL files and the REST URI were incorrect.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The Web Services Scenarios Guide has been updated.

STAR Issue: 21483616-1

The Administrative UI Was Not Properly Localized (173072)

Symptom:

When installing the Administrative UI on a French OS and accessing with a browser with locale in English, some part of the login page was in French. Everything is required to bein English.

Solution:

This is no longer a problem.

Star issue: 21480703-01

The Policy Server Was Randomly Failing (172992)

Symptom:

Th Policy Server was randomly failing in a customer environment. The core dump analysis verified that the failure was due to inappropriate data casting while printing the error logs.

Solution:

This issue is not longer a problem.

Star issue 21467303;1.

Wrong Location for jar files in shfedimport.sh (172882)

Symptom:

When we ran the smfedimport.sh, we got a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. We noticed the java script calls for certain jar files in the /opt/software/ca/siteminder/bin/thirdparty/ location but they are actually located in /opt/software/ca/siteminder/bin/endorsed.


Solution:

The location of the jar files is now correct.in the script.

Star issue 21476994-1.

Using Custom Authentication Scheme Results in Memory Leak (172871)

Symptom:

Using a custom authentication scheme results in a memory leak in the Policy Server.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21411442;2

Error in Authentication REST Interface Tag (172762)

Symptom:

The end tag of the login responses for the Authentication REST Interface had a blank space.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The Policy Server Configuration Guide has been updated.

STAR Issue: 21467829;1

Slow PS Response When Modifying ACOs (172272)

Symptom:

When users modified an ACO, they experiences a 7-10 minutes lag before the Administrative UI displayed the final “task completed” message.

Solution:

This issue has been corrected.

Star issue 21437423-1.

Identity Mapping Not Working (172128)

Symptom:

The identity mappings between LDAP or ODBC directories and the custom directories are not working.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21452663-1

Web Agent or Web Agent Option Pack Failed to Start (172124)

Symptom:

When first policy server listed in HCO is down, the web agent or web agent option pack did not start or initialize. When there are multiple policy servers defined in HCO, with Failover option NO, and the first policy server in the list is down, then WA or WAOP is not connecting to any other PS and not initialized.

Solution:

This is no longer a problem.

Star issue 21450634-1

Test Tool Basic Playback Mode does not work if Policy Server is running in FIPS only Mode (154109)

Symptom:

If the Policy Server is running in FIPS only mode, then the Basic Play Back Mode of the CA SiteMinder® Test Tool does not work correctly.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The Test Tool has been fixed. A new topic added to the SiteMinder Test Tool chapter in the Policy Server Configuration Guide: "How to Use the Test Tool in a FIPS-only Environment."

STAR issue: 20890864-1

Error in Processing Active Expression

Symptom:

CA SiteMinder® was throwing an error when retrieving a web services variable. The error in smtracedefault.log was: "Failed with error 'SmJavaAPI: Expression evaluation returned a null."

Solution:

This problem has been corrected.

Star issue: 21392046

Exception When Editing Users in SAML SP Object

Symptom:

When attempting to edit an existing user entry within a SAML Service Provider Object, the Administrative UI encounteredd an exception. This exception was seen after importing a policy store from V6.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

Star issue: 21399289-1

Administrative UI Console Was Missing Entire Section

Symptom:

The Administrative UI console was missing an entire section of "user attribute" for custom directory setup.


Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

Star issue: 21406240-1

Entity Type Changes from Remote IDP to Remote SP During Import (170262)

Symptom:

When trying to import metadata having multiple entities, the first entity in the list is imported rather than the one that is selected.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21386774-1

Missing Authentication Authorization Web Service Default Settings Template in Administrative UI

Symptom:

The documentation for this web service referenced the AuthAzServiceDefaultSettings template ito create a new ACO, but it did not yet exist.

Solution:

A template is now available. The documentation has been corrected to correspond with the template.

Star issue: 21388970-1

Policy Server not Rolling Logs (170020)

Symptom:

The customer was unable to get their logs to roll automatically, which was causing the policy server to become non-operational.
The process never crashed. It only failed to operate properly when the
log file got to 2 GB in size.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

Star issue: 21349366-1

Bad Search Filter Error (169127)

Symptom:

When you import a policy server using XPSimport, a bad search filter error is displayed.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue.

STAR Issue: 21329382-1

Unable to Edit SQL Entry within a Policy

Symptom:

The Policy User tab lists the user policy objects for the SQL ODBC users. When the user clicked on the edit icon in modify mode, the user was unable to edit.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue..

Star issue: 21148478;3

Default Values of ACO Parameters in Web Agent Configuration Guide Unclear (155294)

Symptom:

The defaults values for the BadFormChars, BadCssChars, and BadUrlChars ACO parameters in the Web Agent Configuration Guide are not clear.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The Web Agent Configuration Guide has been updated.

STAR Issue: 20933042-1

CA SiteMinder® Agent for JBoss Guide Provides Incorrect Directions for UNIX Environment Settings (165866)

Symptom:

The "Set the JBoss Environment on UNIX" topic in the CA SiteMinder® Agent for JBoss Guide incorrectly states that JBOSS_CLASSPATH entries should be separated using a semicolon (;).

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The guide has been updated to show the use of a colon (:) to separate JBOSS_CLASSPATH entries.

STAR issue: 21264939-01

List of Required Linux Libraries in Policy Server Installation Guide is Incomplete (169240, 169427)

Symptom:

The topic "Required Linux Libraries" in the Policy Server Installation Guide does not contain all the libraries that are necessary.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The documentation has been updated.

STAR issue: 21343328-04

The Policy Server Configuration Guide Contains Incorrect Information About Impersonation Scheme Prerequisites (PROD00172378)

Symptom:

The topic "Impersonation Scheme Prerequisites" in Chapter 9 of the Policy Server Configuration Guide incorrectly states that smauthimpersonate.dll (Windows) and
smauthimpersonate (UNIX) are installed with the Web Agent. These files are actually installed on the Policy Server.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The documentation has been updated.

STAR issue: 21467135;1

Administrative UI Linux Prerequisite Information in Policy Server Installation Guide Needs Consolidation (171403)

Symptom:

Different Administrative UI Linux requirements are included in two chapters in the Policy Server Configuration Guide.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The Linux requirements have now been consolidated.

STAR issue: 21436925-1

Additional Information About Bulk Loading Audit Data ODBC Database Required in Policy Server Administration Guide (159529)

Symptom:

The Policy Server Administration Guide should state that the Enable bulk load option in the ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol Driver Setup dialog must not be set when importing audit data into an Oracle database using the -b option.

Solution:

This is no longer an issue. The documentation has been updated.

STAR issue: 21045785-

Addition of the OpenID Authentication Plug-in

Symptom:

The OpenID Authentication scheme requires a new plug-in for web servers that are doing authentication.

Solution:

The plug-in has been incorporated into CA SiteMinder®.

Star issue:20777360;1