Chapter 17       Platform Attributes


The Platform Attributes are global attributes. The values applied to them are carried across the iPlanet Directory Server Access Management Edition (DSAME) configuration and inherited by every configured organization. (They can not be applied directly to roles or organizations as the goal of global attributes is to customize the DSAME application.) The Platform Attributes are:

• Server List

• Platform Locale

• Cookie Domains

• Login Service URL

• Logout Service URL

• Available Locales

Server List

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The naming service reads this attribute at initialization time. This list contains the DSAME session servers in a single DSAME configuration. For example, if two DSAME servers are installed and should work as one, they must both be included in this list. If the host specified in a request for a service URL is not in this list, the naming service will reject the request. The first value in the list specifies the host name and port of the server specified during installation. Additional servers can be added using the format protocol://<server_domain>:<port>.

Platform Locale

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The platform locale value is the default language subtype that DSAME was installed with. The authentication, logging and administration services are administered in the language of this value. The default is en_US. See Table 9-1 for a listing of all supported language subtypes.

Cookie Domains

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This is the list of domains that will be returned in the cookie header when setting a cookie to the user's browser during authentication. If empty, no cookie domain will be set. In other words, the DSAME session cookie will only be forwarded to the DSAME server itself and no other servers in the domain. If SSO is required with other servers in the domain, this attribute must be set with the cookie domain. If you had two interfaces in different domains on one DSAME server then you would need to set both cookie domains in this attribute. If a load balancer is used, the cookie domain must be that of the load balancer's domain, not the servers behind the load balancer. The default value for this field is the domain of the installed DSAME server.

Login Service URL

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This field specifies the URL of the login page. The default value for this attribute is http://<hostname>:<port>/amserver/login.

Logout Service URL

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This field specifies the URL of the logout page. The default value for this attribute is http://<hostname>:<port>/amserver/logout.

Available Locales

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This attribute stores all available locales configured for the platform. Consider an application that lets the user choose their locale. This application would get this attribute from the platform profile and present the list of locales to the user. The user would choose a locale and the application would set this in the user entry preferredLocale.

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