IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile, Version 8.0

Message format

Messages logged by IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile adhere to the Tivoli® Message Standard. Each message consists of a message identifier (ID) and accompanying message text.

Message ID format

A message ID consists of 10 alphanumeric characters that uniquely identify the message.

A message ID in Security Access Manager for Mobile is composed of:

three-character product identifier
two-character or three-character component or subsystem identifier
three-digit or four-digit serial or message number
one-character type code indicating the severity of the message

The figure that follows shows a graphical representation of a possible message ID and identifies its different parts. (Some messages might use 2 characters for the component ID and 4 digits for the serial number.)

Figure 1. Message ID format

Component identifiers

The component identifier indicates which component or subsystem produced the message.

ADM: Administration commands
AUD: Audit
CC: Common Auditing and Reporting Service disk cache
CDS: InfoCard messages
CE: Common Auditing and Reporting Service emitter
CFG: Configuration properties
CLI: Command-line interface
CO: Common Audit Service Configuration Console
CON: Security Access Manager console
CTG: Authorization service
DPW: Secure reverse proxy
FMS: Management service
FBT: Protocol service
IDS: Identity service
IN: Common Auditing and Reporting Service installation
ISJ: Alias service JDBC component
ISL: Alias service LDAP component
IVT: Installation verification test
KES: Key service keystore management
KJK: Key service keystore management
LIB: Liberty single sign-on protocol
LOG: Logging
MB: Common Audit Service Configuration MBean
MGT: Management
MET: Metadata handling
MOD: Module
OID: OpenID messages
PWD: Password handling
RPT: Report messages
RTE: Runtime environment component configuration
SML: SAML single sign-on protocol
SOC: SOAP client
SPS: Single sign-on protocol service
STM: Secure token service
STS: Secure token service modules
STZ: RACF® PassTicket tokens
SU: Common Audit Staging Utility
TAC: Tivoli Access Manager configuration as point-of-contact server
TRC: Trust client
USC: User self care
WS: Common Auditing and Reporting Service Mobile service
WSF: WS-Federation single sign-on protocol
WSP: Provisioning service
WSS: Mobile services security management
XS: Common Audit Service XML data store
XU: Common Audit Service XML store utilities

Severity

Associated with each message is a severity level that indicates whether corrective action must be taken.

Table 1. Severity level
Severity	Description
I (Informational)	Provides information or feedback about normal events that occur. In general, no action needs to be performed in response to an informational message. `FBTRTE033I The domain default was successfully created. FBTSTM066I The Trust Service has been disabled.`
W (Warning)	Indicates that a potentially undesirable condition has occurred, but processing can continue. Intervention or corrective action might be necessary in response to a warning message. `FBTLOG002W An integer was expected. FBTTRC004W The returned RequestSecurityTokenResponse did not have a wsu:Id`
E (Error)	Indicates that a problem has occurred that requires intervention or correction before processing can continue. An error message might be accompanied by one or more warning or informational messages that provide additional details about the problem. `FBTCON013E The federation with ID insert could not be retrieved from the single sign-on protocol service. Explanation: This error can occur if the console is unable to communicate with the single sign-on protocol service. FBTSML260E The binding value value for attribute attr is not valid for profile profile.`

Message text

The text of the message, in the system locale, also is recorded in the log file. If the message text is not available in the desired language, the English language text is used.

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