STS: Operation

Starting & Stopping the Service

/etc/init.d/sts-service start

to start the STS service

/etc/init.d/sts-service stop

to stop the STS service

/etc/init.d/sts-service restart

to restart the STS service

/etc/init.d/sts-service status

to show status of the STS service

Service Information

Service Endpoints

This service contains the following endpoint URLs:

• https://sts.example.org:8443/sts/wstrust - This endpoint is the recipient of the WS-Trust request messages
• https://sts.example.org:8443/sts/ecp - This endpoint is the recipient of SAML 2.0 ECP profile initiation requests

Logging and Logs

This service uses the logback logging library. Java developers are probably familiar with Apache Log4J, logback is written by the developer who initially wrote Log4J and contains a cleaner API and is much more performant. The configuration file for the logging system can be found in /etc/sts/logging.xml.

Enable Debug Logging

To enable debug logging follow:

1. Locate the line that contains logger name="org.glite.sts"
2. On that line, change INFO to DEBUG

NOTE always change your logging levels back to their original values once you are done debugging a problem. Keeping the system on the debug logging level could fill up your disk partition in a short time.