>
> Sorry if I am spamming this list but I am desperate.
>

Yeah, this is a support issue, but we'll cut you some slack ;)


> On July 14th we got over 2000 of these errors out of about 30k successful
> logins. This led to (thanks ITIL
> ) awareness up to the VP level. I am under the gun to find a “solution”
> before the start of school August 24th.
>

I think a ~7% ticket validation failure rate is something of legitimate
concern. Do you see validation failures on this order of magnitude on a
regular basis, or did you just have a peak on that day?

I have turned up log level to debug on the CAS servers. I see successful
> validations in the logs, but not unsuccessful validations.
>

Ticket validation failures are indeed logged, both in audit and in the
validator components. Here are some randomly-chosen audit events from our
log for today:

2015-07-21T09:06:02.252|ST-567525-EK0BvF9xYKDqDSHQUCTV-cas2|audit:unknown|SERVICE_TICKET_VALIDATE_FAILED|198.82.164.189
2015-07-21T09:01:33.503|ST-567442-71agV1hMMND2CC4ntePf-cas2|audit:unknown|SERVICE_TICKET_VALIDATE_FAILED|198.82.164.171
2015-07-21T09:00:59.650|null|audit:unknown|SERVICE_TICKET_VALIDATE_FAILED|128.173.56.37
2015-07-21T08:55:42.543|ST-71780-WlfObEPXfSOfnYdWZlzp-cas1|audit:unknown|SERVICE_TICKET_VALIDATE_FAILED|198.82.169.7
2015-07-21T08:51:00.075|AAHnrNAKBfKATlQQH7UKhnKXNdebx13zB0yXtKeDauD1CWNJ1o30W0QV/|audit:unknown|SERVICE_TICKET_VALIDATE_FAILED|198.82.162.156

Now if I understand how CAS works, there can only be 3 reasons an ST won’t
> validate: it is being reused, it has timed out or it does not exist / is
> corrupted.
>

Correct. So if you don't have any record of ticket validation failure, what
evidence do you have that validation is failing?


> Can someone point me to the method(s) that does the validation?
>

Several places within the following method you could add debug logging, but
you can see there's already quite a bit:

https://github.com/Jasig/cas/blob/3.5.x/cas-server-core/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/CentralAuthenticationServiceImpl.java#L338

Here is a diagram of our infrastructure:
>
>
> https://www.lucidchart.com/invitations/accept/da009b9d-e55f-4f95-9301-e6bd23d508ab
>

I'll take a closer look at the diagram once I get some more information on
how you're identifying ticket validation failures. You should be getting
logging on the CAS server, and the fact that you are apparently not getting
that suggests a client problem.

M

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