Security considerations for HCL Launch
You can act to ensure that your installation is secure and set up user access controls.
- Enabling security during the installation process
- Enabling secure communication between multiple applications
- Ports, protocols, and services
- Keystores for SSL communication and for encrypting secure properties
- Customizing your security settings
- Setting up user roles and access
- Privacy policy considerations
Enabling security during the installation process
During the installation process, by default the server is configured to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for secure communication. The server is configured to use SSL in both manual and silent installations. In addition to SSL communication, role-based access controls are available that determine what actions a particular user can do.
In general, you configure security on the application server or the database server, not in HCL Launch. HCL Launch communicates with the database by using the Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC) provider on the application server.
To learn about configuring Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication, see Authentication realms.
Installing a FIPS-compliant server
You can configure a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliant server by specifying options at installation time.
A FIPS-compliant server has certain limitations. See Installing the server in interactive mode.
Enabling secure communication between multiple applications
You can use tokens to secure communications between products that integrate with HCL Launch. To learn more about tokens, see Tokens.
Ports, protocols, and services
The following table shows the default port numbers for the server.
| Port type | Default port number |
|---|---|
| Incoming connections to the server web interface (HTTP) | 8080 |
| Incoming connections to the server web interface (HTTPS) | 8443 |
| Java™ Message Service (JMS) | 7918 |
| WebSocket agent | 7919 |
| Communication with the Rational® Common Licensing server | Port 27000 for the lmrgd daemon. The port numbers for
the vendor daemon can change, but are typically between 27001 and 27009. See your Rational® Common Licensing
server for the active ports. |
Keystores for SSL communication and for encrypting secure properties
HCL Launch supports multiple keystores, which support different security features. The following list describes the default keystores.
- tomcat.keystore
- The certificate for SSL communication on the HTTPS port of the HCL Launch server is stored in the tomcat.keystore file.
- server.keystore
- The certificate for SSL communication on the JMS port is stored in the
server.keystore file. If mutual authentication is enabled, the identities of
the server and agent computers are verified. If mutual authentication is disabled, then the
server.keystore file is used only to encrypt network traffic. By default,
mutual authentication is disabled.Important:
Mutual authentication is not needed with web agents, therefore is deprecated starting in HCL Launch version 7.0.0.
- encryption.keystore
- The secret key that is used to encrypt and decrypt secure properties is stored in the
encryption.keystore file. If you export applications and components that use
secure properties to other HCL Launch servers,
you must exchange the contents of this keystore between the servers. The secret key in the
encryption.keystore file is randomly generated during installation. The
password is stored in the
encryption.keystore.passwordproperty, and its initial value is the same as theserver.keystore.passwordproperty value.
For more information on keystores and certificates, see Configuring SSL on Apache Tomcat and LDAP servers.
Customizing your security settings
The only user IDs that are created by default are admin for the server and ucdpadmin for the blueprint designer. To change the password for admin, in the server, click . To change the password for ucdpadmin, click and select the Internal Authentication authentication realm.
Failed login attempts are stored in the database. Except for the default admin password, all passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. After you change the default admin password, it is also stored in encrypted form.
Setting up user roles and access
You can create and delete users and add users to groups and teams in HCL Launch. To learn more, see Managing security. On the server, the superuser account with special security privileges is admin. On the blueprint editor, the superuser account with special security privileges is ucdpadmin.
The HCL Launch server and the blueprint designer have separate lists of users and teams.
Privacy policy considerations
Depending on the configurations that are deployed, this software offering might use cookies that can help you to collect personally identifiable information. For information about this use of cookies, see the Notices topic.