IDP3 status page

[Matus Banas]

Hi Rod,

Thanks for that.

Matus

On 19/06/15 11:20, Rod Widdowson wrote:
>> 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
>


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