How To Configure OpenLDAP
Topic: OpenLDAP Software is a free, open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) developed by the OpenLDAP Project. It is released under its own BSD-style license called the OpenLDAP Public License. LDAP is a platform-independent protocol.
To connect to the Ephesoft LDAP database and modify groups, users, permissions, etc administrators can utilize the bundled…
How To Configure Apache Tomcat Users and Groups
Please follow the below steps to setup Apache Tomcat authentication for your Ephesoft application. Apache Tomcat configuration is enabled in four different files:
1. user-connectivity.properties located in Ephesoft Installation Folder\Application\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\dcma-user-connectivity\user-connectivity.properties
This file contains the settings necessary to populate…
Ephesoft Encryption Framework
This document aims at explaining the Ephesoft Encryption framework. This framework enables Ephesoft to encrypt/decrypt the data persisted in XML files and index files while batch processing. In order to achieve encryption/decryption capabilities Ephesoft maintain encryption/decryption keys at following levels:
Application Level Key
Batch Class Level Key
Batch Instance Level…
Migrating your Existing Ephesoft Database from MYSQL to MSSQL
Migrating your Existing Ephesoft Database from MYSQL to MSSQL
Here are the steps you will need to take to successfully migrate your current MYSQL database to a New MSSQL server for Ephesoft Version 4.x. Please keep in mind this will install a new copy of the Ephesoft and Report databases. All current data archived in the existing databases will not be moved.
Solution:
1. Make a backup of…
User Management
Overview
This module is responsible for handling the user's connectivity to the application. It handles authentication as well as authorization process for the user.
Configuration
Login configuration
For a user to login into Ephesoft, we need to configure “server.xml” file located in the <Ephesoft installation path>\JavaAppServer\conf folder.
The admin will configure a tag named…
Troubleshooting Artifact Collection
Overview
The troubleshooting artifact download allows you to download or upload the selected artifacts. This feature creates a zipped file containing all selected artifacts and makes it available for download or upload.
The Troubleshoot section can be accessed by pressing the left arrow ( ◄ ) on the bottom right of the Batch Instance Management screen.
Figure 1: Batch Instance…
Single Sign On
Overview
Single sign-on (SSO) is a mechanism of access control that can be applied on multiple related, but independent software systems. With this mechanism a user logs in once and gains access to multiple systems without being prompted to log in again for each individual application. Conversely, single sign-off is property mechanism whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to…
How to Create a User in OpenLDAP
You can create new accounts in LDAP using jexplorer located in the following location Ephesoft\Dependencies\OpenLDAP\ldap-client\jxplorer-3.2.1
Run the jexplorer.bat and load the preset connection info. The password for the manager account is "secret".
Ephesoft can also be integrated with Active Directory.
If you are creating new user accounts you will also have to add them to…
How To Set up Error Reporting
Applies to: Ephesoft Transact 4.1.2.0 and above
Perform the following steps to configure error reporting for the Ephesoft Transact server:
Edit the mail.properties file, located at \Application\WEB-INF\classes\META-INF\dcma-mail.
Change the host, username, and password values to your settings, set mail.suppress to false, and add the To and From parameters.
Edit the…
How to Administer Ephesoft Users and Groups
Ephesoft supports Tomcat, OpenLDAP and Microsoft Active Directory protocols for maintain a roster of users and groups. OpenLDAP is the default management system that is enabled and configured following a clean installation of Ephesoft Transact. There are two main configuration files:…
Create Samba Share on RHEL 6.5 or Higher
Make sure internet is available on the system.
Make sure that user has proper permission to install software on the system.
To install software on REDHAT a user needs to have Super user permission thus in order to install Samba user must use root to install it.
yum update
yum install samba
Figure: Samba installation on REDHAT
Add a user to samba and…
Create Samba Share on Ubuntu 13.10
Make sure internet is available on the system.
Make sure that user has proper permission to install software on the system.
To install software on Ubuntu a user needs to have Super user permission thus in order to install Samba user must use sudo to install it.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install samba
Figure: Samba installation on ubuntu
Add a user to samba…