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Trust Monitoring Retrieval Error

Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.TrustManagementTrustManagementMetadataRequestErrorMonitor (UnitMonitor)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This monitor indicates that the Federation Service failed to retrieve a federation metadata document from one of its trusts. The default setting for the AD FS trust monitoring time interval is 1 day. This monitor generates a Yellow state if Event ID 168 occurs at least four times within 5 days. If the same problem does not occur again within 1.5 days, the health state of this monitor will change back to a Green state and the alert that this monitor generates will be resolved automatically.

Causes

For more information about the cause of this event, see the additional details that are specified within the event.

Resolutions

Ensure that the Federation Metadata URL is available. Verify your proxy server setting. For more information about how to verify your proxy server setting, see "Things to Check Before Troubleshooting AD FS" section in the AD FS troubleshooting guide.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.TrustManagement
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.ConfigurationState
CategoryConfigurationHealth
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityWarning
Alert PriorityNormal
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
Monitor TypeMicrosoft.Windows.RepeatedEventLogTimer2StateMonitorType
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Trust Monitoring Retrieval Error
The Federation Service failed to retrieve the federation metadata document from '{0}'. Check the Alert Context tab for event details about this trust.
RunAsDefault

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.TrustManagementTrustManagementMetadataRequestErrorMonitor" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.TrustManagement" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.ConfigurationState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.RepeatedEventLogTimer2StateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="true">

  <Category>ConfigurationHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.TrustManagementTrustManagementMetadataRequestErrorMonitor_AlertMessageResourceID">

    <AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>Warning</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/Context/DataItem/Params/Param[1]$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="RepeatedEventRaised" MonitorTypeStateID="RepeatedEventRaised" HealthState="Warning"/>

    <OperationalState ID="TimerEventRaised" MonitorTypeStateID="TimerEventRaised" HealthState="Success"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <RepeatedComputerName>$Target/Host/Host/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</RepeatedComputerName>

    <RepeatedLogName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Microsoft.ActiveDirectoryFederationServices2012R2.FederationServer"]/ADFSEventLog$</RepeatedLogName>

    <RepeatedExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="UnsignedInteger">EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="UnsignedInteger">168</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">PublisherName</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesMOM2005RegularExpression</Operator>

            <Pattern>(^AD FS$)</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </RepeatedExpression>

    <Consolidator>

      <ConsolidationProperties/>

      <TimeControl>

        <WithinTimeSchedule>

          <Interval>432000</Interval>

        </WithinTimeSchedule>

      </TimeControl>

      <CountingCondition>

        <Count>4</Count>

        <CountMode>OnNewItemTestOutputRestart_OnTimerSlideByOne</CountMode>

      </CountingCondition>

    </Consolidator>

    <TimerWaitInSeconds>129600</TimerWaitInSeconds>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>