Comment: New article?
This article is new for Identity Manager 5.0.0.
Upon startup, Identity Manager Operator and Identity Manager Administrator perform various checks of the Sign and Encrypt engine's configuration. Depending on the severity, failed checks will lead to log messages or even prevent the system from starting.
Check the Secret Fields Store configuration
Secrets are stored in the Secret Fields Store. If the wrong key is configured, Identity Manager will not be able to decrypt existing secrets. This check makes sure that the correct key is configured.
If this check fails, start up will be aborted. To fix the error, configure the correct key for the offending descriptor. If you want to change this keypair, follow the documentation for doing so.
Check the Object History signature configuration
This particular check is performed by Identity Manager Operator only.
Identity Manager signs the history of the objects it manages. When you are using an already existing Object History chain, this check makes sure that certificates for signing and verification of this chain are properly configured in a way that allows the chain to be continued. This means that the certificate and associated keypair used for the last entry of the chain must still be available.
A failure of this test indicates that the descriptors used for the Object History signing are wrong. In this case, start up will be aborted. Check that the correct certificate/keypair is configured for the descriptor and that the versioning is correct.
If you think that the engine's configuration is correct but you still get this error, you can also recover from this error by configuring a new Object History chain as shown below:
For Tomcat deployment: add the following to WEB-INF/classes/system.properties of the Identity Manager Operator webapp:
# replace NEW_CHAIN with the desired name for the replacement chain commonHistoryService.chainName=NEW_CHAIN
For docker deployment: add the following to the start of the SYSTEM_PROPERTIES definition in docker/compose/identitymanager/operator/docker-compose.yml:
# replace NEW_CHAIN with the desired name for the replacement chain "commonHistoryService.chainName": "NEW_CHAIN",
The old chain will remain intact for further analysis. The new chain will be signed with the currently configured descriptor.
Check for Demo Keys
This check will go through all the configured keys of the sign and encrypt engine and check them against a blacklist. The blacklist contains known demo keys by default (publicly known and thus not suitable for productive use). If a descriptor uses a blacklisted keypair, an error message will be logged with details of the offending descriptor.
You can add certificates to the blacklist, for example, the ones that you used during development of your solution. The blacklist is contained in the file blacklist.p12, the default password is "blacklist".
If this check fails, booting will not be aborted, as this is an acceptable scenario for development, testing and demonstrations. To fix the error, change the keys of the offending descriptors.