To correctly interpret the trace messages, you must have a good understanding of the following:
Identity Manager core architecture. For more information, see What Are Policies? in the NetIQ Identity Manager Understanding Policies Guide.
Flow of policies. For more information, see How Policies Function in the NetIQ Identity Manager Understanding Policies Guide.
Identity Vault schema. For more information, see Managing the Schema.
DTD (Document Type Definition) for DirXMLScript and XDS (NDS DTD). For more information, see DTD Reference.
<input> and <output> tags in NDS DTD.
Input: Encapsulates events or commands sent as input to a driver or Identity Manager. All <nds> documents sent as a parameter to Identity Manager or driver interface method should contain exactly one <input> tag.
Output: Result of the events or commands returned to a driver or Identity Manager. All <nds> documents returned from Identity Manager or the driver interface method should contain exactly one <output> tag.