AM#500106006 can be caused by incorrect cert listed in the SP metadata

Document ID:7008855
Creation Date:06-Jun-2012
Modified Date:06-Jun-2012
- Micro Focus Products:
  Access Manager (NAM)

Environment

Novell Access Manager 3.1 Linux Identity Server

Situation

Federated with a Service Provider and the SAML SP Authn Request fails due to:

<amLogEntry> 2012-06-06T16:41:11Z INFO NIDS IDFF: AM#500106006: AMDEVICEID#XXXXXXXXX: Validation failure on message from urn:xxxxxxx : Signature validation failed </amLogEntry>

Resolution

This can be caused by the incorrect certificate being in the metadata provided by the SP. The SP either needs to correct their metadata, or you can manually edit and re-import with the correct certificate.