Scheduled Restart of IDP Service

[Alex Stuart]

> On 4 Apr 2017, at 15:39, Edward Patri <Edward.Patri at csi.cuny.edu> wrote:
> 
> It was brought to our attention that every two weeks or so our IDP server will not respond to requests. When this happens we just  stop and start the shibd_idp.exe  service and everything starts working again. 

Many of the calls like this that we get on the UK federation helpdesk come from the IdP running out of memory & the metadata going invalid. If you find similar kind of output in your idp-process.log, I'd suggest increasing the Java heap memory in your IdP:

2017-01-16 14:02:16,700 - DEBUG [org.opensaml.saml.metadata.resolver.impl.AbstractReloadingMetadataResolver:380]
 - Metadata Resolver FileBackedHTTPMetadataResolver UKfederationMetadata: Unmarshalling metadata from 'http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml'
2017-01-16 14:02:22,323 - ERROR [net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.service.AbstractReloadableService:188] 
- Service 'shibboleth.MetadataResolverService': Unexpected error during initial load {} org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'ShibbolethMetadata': Cannot create inner bean

Hope that helps,
Alex


—
Alex Stuart
UK federation support team
alex.stuart at jisc.ac.uk



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