Symptom
You have configured a trusted connection between MDM server and a trusted server, but when attempting to establish a connection, it fails and the following (or similar error) message is logged to the portal default trace file:
"Error occurred: class javax.resource.spi.EISSystemException: Failed to
create session to repository <repository_name> on MDM
server <MDM server> for user <user name> because password was not
specified and connection to MDM server is not trusted."
Other terms
iViews; MDM Java API; MDM; allow.ip; deny.ip;
Reason and Prerequisites
You have configured a trusted connection for MDM server, including configuring the allow.ip and deny.ip files that reside on the MDM server host.
Solution
The trusted connection files, allow.ip and deny.ip should be lower case. (if you your trusted connection's file names are Allow.ip or Deny.ip, you should rename them to allow.ip and deny.ip correspondingly).
In addition, you should confirm that the mds.ini 'TrustFile Dir' property value contains the directory path to the folder where the trusted files allow.ip and deny.ip are located.
Once the file has been renamed to the correct case, or if you have modified the 'TrustFile Dir' value, restart the MDM server for these changes to take effect.
Note - Renaming is especially important for MDM server running on Unix based operating system, since as apposed to Window base OS, Unix is case sensitive.
Note - When a trusted connection has been configured, running a portal system object connection test will fail, since this test assumes the existence of user mapping. For more details, refer to SAP Note 1342477 "Portal System Object System Connection Test always fails".
