Hi Ralph,
of the two values, only the openid.server value needs to be found. The other is used for delegation, which is not supported by the SAM (at this time).
If you want to post your proposed changes, that would be great. Based on the log msg, there appears to have been a problem in setting up the associtaion to the idp.; which occurs in AssociationManager.getAssociationHandle.
If you want to try to debug this further, you might be able to get a bit more debugging info by intializing the provider with the "debug" and "debug.stages=association" options. You can configure these options via the admin console (as part of the message provider config).
Ron
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