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File(s): conf/services.xml, conf/services.properties

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The fail-fast behavior, which can be adjusted by service to a limited degree, determines whether the IdP webapp context will initialize and serve clients if a particular service fails to initialize successfully. The point of this mechanism is to allow you to decide for yourself when problems should be discovered and how serious they should be treated. While it isn't the default, you may find it simpler when first starting out to enable fail-fast behavior globally while you work through mistakes.

Whether a given service succeeds or fails is ultimately an internal consideration, but generally we're talking about whether its configuration is valid and whether its pieces and parts themselves are considered to be successfully initialized. Often there may be individual fail-fast settings applying at the micro level that in turn dictate whether the surrounding service starts (and which then determines the overall result of the IdP startup process based on the service's fail-fast behavior). On top of that, some of the subsystems cause ripple effects when they fail that may make it impossible to really achieve non-fail-fast behavior in some cases.

As of V3.2, there are two levels of fail-fast properties that control service behavior (and described below). A global property called idp.service.failFast can be used to toggle all services to fail-fast at once (since the default is false for most, but true for a couple). In addition, or instead, you can control the behavior of specific services with properties specific to each service. The individual properties override the global setting, so you can mix and match.

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Code Block
$ ./reload-service.sh -id shibboleth.AttributeResolverService

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ReloadURL
ReloadURL
Alternatively, you may reload services by issuing a GET request to the following URL, assuming your client has access as defined in AccessControlConfiguration.

Code Block
GET http(s)://[idp-base-url]/idp/profile/admin/reload-service?id=shibboleth.LoggingService

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Reference

Beans

Beans defined in services.xml follow:

Bean IDTypeFunctionReloadable Service ID
shibboleth.RelyingPartyResolverResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>RelyingPartyConfiguration resources for a new or migrated installation.shibboleth.RelyingPartyResolverService
shibboleth.LegacyRelyingPartyResolverResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>RelyingPartyConfiguration using a deprecated V2 relying-party.xml file.shibboleth.RelyingPartyResolverService
shibboleth.MetadataResolverResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>MetadataConfiguration resources.shibboleth.MetadataResolverService
shibboleth.AttributeResolverResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>AttributeResolverConfiguration resources.shibboleth.AttributeResolverService
shibboleth.AttributeFilterResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>AttributeFilterConfiguration resources.shibboleth.AttributeFilterService
shibboleth.NameIdentifierGenerationResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>NameIDGenerationConfiguration resources.shibboleth.NameIdentifierGenerationService
shibboleth.AccessControlResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>AccessControlConfiguration resources.shibboleth.ReloadableAccessControlService
shibboleth.MessageSourceResourcesjava.
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util.List<Resource>Internationalizable user interface messages.N/A
shibboleth.CASServiceRegistryResources 3.2java.
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util.List<Resource>Resources containing ServiceRegistry beans to be reloaded.shibboleth.ReloadableCASServiceRegistry

Properties

Properties defined in services.properties follow:

PropertyTypeDefaultFunction
idp.service.failFast 3.2BooleanfalseSet default fail-fast
behavor
behavior of all services unless overridden by service
idp.service.logging.resourceResource path%{idp.home}/conf/logback.xmlLogging configuration resource to use (the reloadable service ID is "shibboleth.LoggingService")
idp.service.logging.failFastBooleantrueFail at startup if logging configuration is invalid
idp.service.logging.checkIntervalDuration0Time to notice changes to logging configuration and reload service.
A value of 0 indicates that the logging configuration never reloads
idp.service.relyingparty.resourcesBean IDshibboleth.RelyingPartyResolverResourcesName of Spring bean identifying resources to use for RelyingPartyConfiguration service
idp.service.relyingparty.failFastBooleanfalseFail at startup if RelyingPartyConfiguration is invalid
idp.service.relyingparty.checkIntervalDuration0Time to notice changes to RelyingPartyConfiguration configuration and reload service
A value of 0 indicates that the relying party configuration never reloads
idp.service.metadata.resourcesBean IDshibboleth.MetadataResolverResourcesName of Spring bean identifying resources to use for MetadataConfiguration service
idp.service.metadata.failFastBooleanfalseFail at startup if MetadataConfiguration is invalid
idp.service.metadata.checkIntervalDuration0Time to notice changes to MetadataConfiguration configuration and reload service
A value of 0 indicates that the metadata configuration never reloads
idp.service.attribute.resolver.resourcesBean IDshibboleth.AttributeResolverResourcesName of Spring bean identifying resources to use for AttributeResolverConfiguration service
idp.service.attribute.resolver.failFastBooleanfalseFail at startup if AttributeResolverConfiguration is invalid
idp.service.attribute.resolver.
checkInterval
checkInterval     Duration0Time to notice changes to AttributeResolverConfiguration configuration and reload service
A value of 0 indicates that the attribute resolver configuration never reloads
idp.service.attribute.resolver.maskFailures 3.1BooleantrueWhether attribute resolution failure should silently produce no attributes (the V2 behavior), or cause an overall profile request failure event
idp.service.attribute.resolver.stripNulls 3.4BooleanfalseWhether null values should be stripped from the results of the attribute resolution (prior to filtering and encoding)
idp.service.attribute.filter.resourcesBean IDshibboleth.AttributeFilterResourcesName of Spring bean identifying resources to use for AttributeFilterConfiguration service
idp.service.attribute.filter.failFastBooleanfalseFail at startup if AttributeFilterConfiguration is invalid
idp.service.attribute.filter.checkIntervalDuration0Time to notice changes to AttributeFilterConfiguration configuration and reload service
A value of 0 indicates that the attribute filter configuration never reloads
idp.service.attribute.filter.maskFailures 3.1BooleantrueWhether attribute filtering failure should silently produce no attributes (the V2 behavior), or cause an overall profile request failure event
idp.service.nameidGeneration.resourcesBean IDshibboleth.NameIdentifierGenerationResourcesName of Spring bean identifying resources to use for NameIDGenerationConfiguration service
idp.service.nameidGeneration.failFastBooleanfalseFail at startup if NameIDGenerationConfiguration is invalid
idp.service.nameidGeneration.checkIntervalDuration0Time to notice changes to NameIDGenerationConfiguration configuration and reload service
idp.service.access.resourcesBean IDshibboleth.AccessControlResourcesName of Spring bean identifying resources to use for AccessControlConfiguration service
idp.service.access.failFastBooleantrueFail at startup if AccessControlConfiguration is invalid
idp.service.access.checkIntervalDuration0Time to notice changes to AccessControlConfiguration configuration and reload service
idp.service.cas.registry.resources 3.2Bean IDshibboleth.CASServiceRegistryResourcesName of Spring bean identifying resources to use for CAS service registry configuration
idp.service.cas.registry.failFast 3.2BooleanfalseFail at startup if CAS service registry configuration is invalid
idp.service.cas.registry.checkInterval 3.2Duration0Time to notice CAS service registry configuration changes and reload service
idp.message.resourcesBean IDshibboleth.MessageSourceResourcesName of Spring bean identifying Spring message property resources
idp.message.cacheSecondsInteger300Seconds between reloads of message property resources
idp.httpclient.useTrustEngineTLSSocketFactory3.1BooleanfalseWhether to substitute a custom certificate evaluation process for the built-in Java behavior

idp.httpclient.connectionDisregardTLSCertificate

BooleanfalseWhether to ignore TLS certificates by default when loading an HTTPResourceidp.httpclient.connectionTimeoutInteger-1Default connection timeout for HTTPResource (-1 for none)idp.httpclient.memorycaching.maxCacheEntriesInteger50Maximum number of cache entries when using the "shibboleth.MemoryCachingHttpClient" beanidp.httpclient.memorycaching.maxCacheEntrySizeInteger1048576Maximum size of cache when using the "shibboleth.MemoryCachingHttpClient" beanidp.httpclient.filecaching.maxCacheEntriesInteger100Maximum number of cache entries when using the "shibboleth.FileCachingHttpClient" beanidp.httpclient.filecaching.maxCacheEntrySizeInteger10485760Maximum size of cache when using the "shibboleth.FileCachingHttpClient" bean

idp.httpclient.filecaching.cacheDirectory

File path
 Directory location of cache when using the "shibboleth.FileCachingHttpClient" bean

V2 Compatibility

A similar function was performed by the services.xml file in 2.xV2, but in 3.0 V3 this file is now a native Spring bean file and the older services XML schema is not supported or used.

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