IDP3 status page

[Rod Widdowson]

> Rod, what do you mean by "jettisoned" the concept?
> I'm still not clear if it is possible to validate LDAP and RDBMS after
> initialization.

Briefly, no.  And by jettisoned I mean that we decided to not bring forward
all these mechanisms for dynamically probing the services.

> I'm digging through the source code of IDP3, and trying to understand
> how to create custom status page that validates the LDAP and RDBMS
> connectors.

You might be able to make something work, but you'll be working in the -impl
tree and that means at any release anything you implement may break at any
time for any release.

It isn't what you want exactly but yesterday I entered case
https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/IDP-743 which would display the
time when a dataconnector last failed (if ever).  It isn't what you need
because it only reports failures in the past.  This is targeted against 3.2
and right now I don't see why it shouldn't be done for it.

Rod