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  • From: Chad La Joie <>
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  • Subject: Re: IdP Logs: Last change to comment
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:28:32 -0400
  • Openpgp: id=A260F52E; url=http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3F5E9E87A260F52E
  • Organization: Georgetown University

SAML requires all times to be UTC based and I've kept that pattern
throughout the rest of the code, so I think we're good there.

Patrik Schnellmann wrote:
> Hello Chad
>
> That looks very good. I think we will be able to pull out all we need.
>
> Would it make sense to add timezone information to the request/response
> times?
>
> Best regards,
> Patrik
>
> Chad La Joie wrote:
>> Okay, last chance for comments.
>>
>> The Shibboleth 2.0 IdP will have three logs: access, audit, and normal
>> log4j log(s).
>>
>> Access: contains information about incoming requests, whether they
>> complete or error out. Contains the following fields: request time,
>> remote host IP, server host IP, server port, request path
>>
>> Audit: contains the following information about completed transactions,
>> note not all fields may appear for every request/response pair: response
>> time, asserting party ID, relying party ID, incoming request binding,
>> outgoing response binding, message profile, SAML request ID, SAML
>> response ID, user principal name, per-sp, per-principal authentication
>> method, ID of released attributes
>>
>> log4j log(s): logging messages from the IdP as it executes, could be
>> split into separate logs based on severity (i.e. error log for error and
>> fatal messages, another for everything else).
>>
>> Anything additional people need in either the access or audit logs?
>> Note that both logs will be written in some parsable format ( | (pipe)
>> delimited by default).

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