SiteMinder Sm_AgentApi_IsProtected() & 'SM_AGENTAPI_NO'

[PHDai]

Dear SiteMinder Experts,

 

we are using SiteMinder together with IIS and Cognos 11 to authenticate our
Cognos 11 users. Right now its a bit of a URL copy and pasting procedure to get
to the Cognos 11 start page and on the way we get a SiteMinder error
that I hope can be used to pin down the core issue.

 

First we open the URL ending with .../bi/
and see the SiteMinder message:
CAM-AAA-0165 Sm_AgentApi_IsProtected() 'SM_AGENTAPI_NO'

 

Secondly we have to paste in the following URL ending with ...bi/v1/disp

which is rewritten again to to .../bi/

and we arrive at our Cognos 11 website.

 

I fear that something with our setup is wrong and would
be very happy if someone has an idea.

[Hongxu Liu]

Hi Philip,

This is how documentation explains the call.

Sm_AgentApi_IsProtected() - CA Single Sign-On - 12.52 SP1 - CA Technologies Documentation 

Sm_AgentApi_IsProtected() - CA Single Sign-On - 12.52 SP1 - CA Technologies Documentation

Checks if the defined resource is protected by CA Single Sign-on.

Syntax

int SM_EXTERN Sm_AgentApi_IsProtected (
   const void                             pHandle,
   const char*                            lpszClientIpAddr,
   const Sm_AgentApi_ResourceContext_t*   pResourceContext,
   Sm_AgentApi_Realm_t*                   pRealm
);

 

Parameter	I/O	Description
pHandle	I	Agent API session handle returned in parameter ppHandle of Sm_AgentApi_Init().
lpszClientIpAddr	I	The IP address of the client asking for the resource. This is an optional parameter.
pResourceContext	I	A resource definition structure.
pRealm	O	A realm definition structure. The resource is protected by the returned realm.

Sm_AgentApi_IsProtected() - CA Single Sign-On - 12.52 SP1 - CA Technologies Documentation

Return Values

• SM_AGENTAPI_YES. The resource is protected.
• SM_AGENTAPI_NO. The resource is not protected.
• SM_AGENTAPI_NOCONNECTION. The initialization was not done.
• SM_AGENTAPI_FAILURE. The server could not be reached.
• SM_AGENTAPI_TIMEOUT. The function timed out.

Example

See the function SmAgentExample::Sm_IsProtected() in the example application smagentexample.cpp.

 

Hope it helps.

 

Hongxu

[PHDai]

Thanks! Investigating the protected resources was the right step.

In our case it worked after we protected everything \.