Configuring Security Adapters Using the Siebel Management Console

This topic describes how to configure a Database, LDAP, or Custom security adapter using the Siebel Management Console after you have installed Siebel Business Applications. For information on installing and configuring Siebel Business Applications, see Siebel Installation Guide.

Note: When creating a security profile using the Siebel Management Console, the database security adapter is selected by default, indicating to use database authentication, but you can change this and select to use an LDAP or a custom security adapter as required. Database authentication is supported for development environments only, it is not supported for production environments.

You use the Siebel Management Console to do the following:

• Configure the parameters that set security adapter values. When you configure these parameters, the gateway must be running.

• Configure security adapter settings for gateway access authentication.

• Configure authentication parameters for Siebel application configuration, when configuring a Siebel Developer Web Client.

The Siebel Management Console sets authentication-related configuration parameters for Siebel Business Applications and Siebel Gateway authentication, but does not make changes to the LDAP directory. Make sure the configuration information you enter is compatible with your directory server.

When you specify LDAP as the security adapter type using the Siebel Management Console, the setting you specify provides the value for the Enterprise Security Authentication Profile (Security Adapter Mode) parameter. The Security Adapter Mode and Security Adapter Name (named subsystem) parameters can be set for Siebel Gateway, Siebel Enterprise Server, for a particular Siebel Server, for an individual Application Object Manager component, or for the Synchronization Manager component (for Siebel Remote).

When you specify LDAP as the security adapter mode, additional configuration parameters are defined for the particular LDAP security adapter. For example, the Security Adapter DLL Name (SecAdptDllName) parameter is automatically set when you specify LDAP as the security adapter mode.

Caution: If you want to configure a server component or a Siebel Server to use different LDAP authentication settings to those already configured at a higher level (that is, configured for the Siebel Enterprise or Siebel Server), then you must create a new LDAP security adapter. Otherwise, the settings you make reconfigure the existing security adapter wherever it is used.

The following procedure describes how to use the Siebel Management Console to configure security adapters (security profile) provided with Siebel Business Applications.

Note: You can set Enterprise (profile) parameters and Object Manager (Siebel Application Interface profile) parameters on Siebel Gateway using Siebel Server Manager or Siebel Management Console. However, you cannot set security profile parameters using Siebel Server Manager, you must use Siebel Management Console to set security profile parameters.

For information about using Siebel Server Manager to edit parameters on Siebel Gateway, see Siebel System Administration Guide. For information about editing parameters on Siebel Gateway using the Siebel Management Console, see the following procedure.

To configure your security adapter using Siebel Management Console

1. Log in to the Siebel Management Console.

2. Click Profiles in the navigation menu, and then click Security.

   Existing security profiles are listed, if any.

3. Click Add (the plus (+) icon) to add a new security profile, or click the Clone button to clone an existing profile.

4. Specify a name for the profile.

   The security profile that is created on first login is named Gateway.

5. Click Add (the plus (+) icon) next to Data Sources to add a new data source.

6. Click Datasource, and configure your security adapter.

   • To configure a security adapter of type Database Authentication Basic mode:

     • Select the following option: Database Authentication (Basic mode for development only).

     • Specify the settings for the selected data source, as shown in Parameters for Configuring Security Adapter Authentication.

     • Click Next when prompted.

   • To configure a security adapter of type Database Authentication Advanced mode:

     • Select the following option: Database Authentication (Advanced mode).

     • Specify the settings for the selected data source, as shown in Parameters for Configuring Security Adapter Authentication.

     • Click Next when prompted.

   • To configure a security adapter of type LDAP:

     • Select the following option: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Authentication.

     • Specify the settings for the selected data source, as shown in Parameters for Configuring Security Adapter Authentication.

     • Click Next when prompted.

   • To configure a security adapter of type Custom:

     • Select the following option: Custom Security Authentication (using Security SDK).

     • Specify the settings for the selected data source, as shown in Parameters for Configuring Security Adapter Authentication.

     • Click Next when prompted.

7. When you have specified all applicable settings, click Submit and save your changes to the profile.