Debugging Features

The Federation Security Services components log specific events to monitor and debug activity across the federated network.

Web Agent log—Displays information about any request to generate a SAML assertion at a producer site
Federation Web Services log—Displays information about requests to retrieve SAML assertions and to consume SAML assertions. Additionally, the log displays session synchronization and notification events from the SAML Affiliate Agent.
Policy Server log—Displays the results of calls from the SAML assertion generator and SAML artifact authentication scheme. Also displays Policy Server trace messages that you configure using the Policy Server Management Profiler or using one of the provided profiler template files.
Web Agent Option Pack logs—Displays FWS trace messages that you configure using the FWSTrace.conf file or using one of the provided trace template files.
SAML Affiliate Agent logs—Displays information about activities at a consumer site protected by the SAML Affiliate Agent.