Object authentication configuration fatal error during deployment

This topic provides troubleshooting references and steps for resolving fatal system errors in object authentication configuration during deployment.

Description

When the user configures the authentication by using the spectrumscale installation toolkit, the system displays the following error:

2016-02-16 13:48:07,799 [ FATAL ] <nodename> failure whilst: Configuring object authentication (SS98)

Cause

The system displays this error under one or all of the following conditions:
  • Only the users under the specified user DN are visible to Keystone.
  • The users do not have the specified object class.

Proposed workaround

Change the object authentication or modify the AD/LDAP for the users who do not have the specified object class.
Parent topic: Object issues