Bug ID 525692: Error messages on import fail of custom TAC-DB

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP PEM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0

Opened: May 29, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If a custom tacdb import fails, no error message will be given.

Impact

Import errors will not be visible.

Conditions

TAC-DB error log level not set to debug

Workaround

The error message of custom tacdb will be shown in /var/log/shmmapd.out in debug mode. To change it into debug mode, run "touch /service/shmmapd/debug", then restart shmmapd. All the error messages will be logged into shmmapd.out

Fix Information

tacdb errors are now printed to stdout and to /var/log/shmmapd.out

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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