000031630 - RSA Via L&G Collector fails with an Illegal XML character error

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Article Number000031630
Applies ToRSA Product Set: Via Lifecycle and Governance
RSA Product/Service Type: Access Certification Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 6.8.1, 6.9, 6.9.1, 7.0
Platform: Any
Issue
  • Test Collection fails with the following error message:
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Collector test failed:
 org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Illegal XML character: 0x0 
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.io.IllegalCharException: Illegal XML character: 0x0 at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.XMLReaderReader.read(XMLReaderReader.java:169) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yy_refill(PiccoloLexer.java:3474) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yylex(PiccoloLexer.java:3958) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yylex(Piccolo.java:1290) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yyparse(Piccolo.java:1400) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.parse(Piccolo.java:714) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3439) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parse(Locale.java:706) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:690) at
 org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:677) ...


  • Collectors fail in the DataPreProcessing stage with the following error message:
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org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 6; columnNumber: 16;
An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the element content of the document.
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.SAXUserDataPreProcessingFilter.generateUserDataFile
(SAXUserDataPreProcessingFilter.java:332)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.SAXUserDataPreProcessingFilter.process(SAXUserDataPreProcessingFilter.java:121)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.SAXUserDataPreProcessingFilter.process(SAXUserDataPreProcessingFilter.java:407)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.DataProcessor.process(DataProcessor.java:85)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.DataProcessor.process(DataProcessor.java:64)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.DataPreProcessingExecutor.executeFullTask(DataPreProcessingExecutor.java:136)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.DataPreProcessingExecutor.executeTask(DataPreProcessingExecutor.java:64)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.TaskExecutor.execute(TaskExecutor.java:99)
at com.aveksa.server.xfw.ExecutionTaskQueue$Worker.run(ExecutionTaskQueue.java:116)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

CauseOne of the collected attributes contains null characters (NUL) which is currently not supported by Via Lifecycle and Governance. An example of an attribute that always contains a null character is the Microsoft Active Directory objectSid attribute:
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WorkaroundThere is currently no workaround for collecting attributes that contain null characters. Avoid including such attributes any collector. For example: try using the objectGUID attribute instead of the objectSid attribute as a unique identifier for Microsoft Active Directory objects.

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