C.1 Prerequisites

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.