Chapter 3   Logging on


Once you have completed your iPlanet Trustbase Transaction Manager Installation you are ready to logon on and consider all your various configuration options. This involves authorising services, users, roles and certificates. Defining your logging options. Setting your SSL transport configuration options. Deploying your services and defining configuration interaction options via templates.

Configuration Management overview

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In order to inspect or modify items within a iPlanet Trustbase Transaction Manager installation the administrator must log in using the HTML Logon form:

http://<hostname>/NASAdapter/logon.html

The Administrator may perform a variety of configuration operations each time returning to the appropriate home screen. Selecting logout on the Home Screen will terminate the operator's session and require re-authentication to use any of the configuration screens. Once logged out of a session it is not possible to configure iPlanet Trustbase Transaction Manager using HTML screens cached in the browser as the administration authentication context has been removed from the iPlanet Trustbase Transaction Manager server. If an administrator leaves the session logged in for longer than several minutes without any activity, the session is automatically terminated and the administrator must re-authenticate using the login screen to gain access to the system. If the session times out, operating any buttons on the configuration screens will result in a server error being returned to the users browser. It is necessary to login to iPlanet Trustbase Transaction Manager again.

Logon Screen

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The iPlanet Trustbase Transaction Manager is installed with one standard username. All administrators enter the system using the Logon Screen shown below:

Figure 3-1    Logon Screen

The username and password have been set as illustrated below. This can be changed by selecting the appropriate menu option (see section "Adding users to roles").

Username Administrator Username Administrator

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Note	This password has the same implications as a root password on a Solaris machine and as such should not be lost.

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Configuration Options

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The following Options are available:

• Authorisation - that defines roles, services, users and Certificates
  
  

• Logs - that allows you to query, configure and view messages that are thrown round the system
  
  

• SSL - Configures your proxy by defining which certificate store settings it is using, its server address and port, the cryptographic algorithm used at the SSL Layer and the number of connections permitted at any one time.
  
  

• Services - allows you to register and deploy services
  
  

• Templates - that define what kinds of message protocol are acceptable to the system
  
  

• Log Off - that allows you to exit from the configuration screens.