JD,

 

When you start the AR Server (or kill -9 arplugin) and it creates a new
arplugin log file, do you see this anywhere?

 

Plug-In Loaded: ARSYS.AREA.LDAP version 2

 

In fact I would search for ARSYS.AREA.LDAP. If you don't have any in there,
then the plugin isn't loading. 

 

If this is the case, comment out the arplugin line in the armonitor.conf and
restart. Then you can start the arplugin manually from the commandline. Then
if something is up, it will echo it to the console.

 

I don't think your arealdap plugin is loading. In your ar.conf, have you got
the arealdap.so (or dll) on a line beginning with Plugin: or
AREA-Hub-Plugin:?

 

If its the second one, then make sure you have Plugin: <someDir>/areahub.so
(or dll)

 

Kind regards

Danny

 

 

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JD Hood
Sent: 22 December 2011 23:39
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: AREA LDAP logging question

 

** The plugin log only will show a single +VL and -VL per each login
attempt.  I don't see anything that indicates it's loading the AREA plugin
in the plugin log. 

 

When support saw that, they went straight to the ar.cfg, but the AREA config
entries in there look fine.

 

We do know that the bind user, login & pass are good because we can use
those values with LDP to browse/search LDAP.

 

So, something is wonky with the Remedy AREA plugin, they just don't know
what yet. Bundled up  the config files and logs (java stuff too) and they
are going to have a look, presumably with engineering.

 

After all this, I wouldn't be surprised to find it's a network issue or
something outside of Remedy. If only we could get logging to wake up, we
could have better visibility into what it's doing. But the logging side is
just not cooperating...

 

Thanks,

JDHood

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Grooms, Frederick W
<[email protected]> wrote:

Do you see the lines in the log where it is loading the AREA plugin?   If
not how is the arealdap plugin listed in the ar.cfg file?

An additional thought...
On Windows 7.6.04 is AREA now a Java plugin? If so it should be debugged
thru the pluginsvr_config.xml and log4j_pluginsvr.xml files in the pluginsvr
directory.

Fred


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of JD Hood
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 5:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: AREA LDAP logging question

**
7.6.04 ITSM on Windows & SQL Server

I'm trying to configure AREA authentication. I have everything configured
enough to make an authentication attempt and the attempt naturally fails.

I do not have a POC at the LDAP server to check my test user's account or to
check logging on the LDAP end.

At this point, I'm not even sure I'm reaching LDAP, successfully binding
and/or hitting the test user's LDAP account.

With plugin logging on and set to "ALL", I get about 730 lines of logging
when I attempt to login with a test user.

Out of those 730 lines of logging, I only get the following two lines that
mention AREA or my user:

<PLGN> <TID: 005436> <RPC ID: 0000000086> <Queue: AREA      > <Client-RPC:
390695> /* Wed Dec 21 2011 18:14:13.9300 */+VL    AREAVerifyLoginCallback
-- user TRAIN19
<PLGN> <TID: 005436> <RPC ID: 0000000086> <Queue: AREA      > <Client-RPC:
390695> /* Wed Dec 21 2011 18:14:13.9300 */-VL
FAIL 


This is like troubleshooting via braille method. Is there another AREA/LDAP
log or some way to log the bind and auth attempt on the REMEDY side?

I've checked ARSList archives and the BMC KB's and can't find anything that
I haven't already tried. I do see some really nice log examples (Knowledge
Article ID: KA334262) that I *WISH* I could capture on the Remedy Side. I
think they would tell me what I need to know to get this working. For now,
all I can find is those two measly log lines above.

Any suggestions on how to get AREA logging much more verbose on the *REMEDY
SIDE*?

Thanks in advance!
JDHood

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