Configuring security

Configuring security on the new backup master domain manager.

About this task

After you have installed the new backup master domain manager at the current product level, you need to manage user access and security. By default, HCL Workload Automation is configured to use a local file-based user repository.

You can implement an OpenID Connect (OIDC) user registry, a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user registry, or a basic user registry by configuring the sample authentication templates provided in XML format. You can further customize the templates by adding additional elements to the XML files. For a full list of the elements that you can configure to complement or modify the configuration, see the related Open Liberty documentation, for example LDAP User Registry (ldapRegistry).

Configuring an LDAP user registry

About this task

You can implement an LDAP based user repository by configuring the following sample authentication templates provided in XML format. The following are the supported authentication methods and the corresponding sample template that can be configured to replace the configuration file currently in use:

OpenLDAP: auth_OpenLDAP_config.xml
IBM® Directory Server: auth_IDS_config.xml
Windows Server Active Directory: auth_AD_config.xml

To configure a common authentication provider for both the HCL Workload Automation and the Dynamic Workload Console, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Assign a role to your authentication provider user or group.
1. Log in to the Dynamic Workload Console as administrator and access the Manage Roles page.
2. Add a new Entity of type Group to the role you want to assign to your authentication provider user or group and click Save.
Update the authentication configuration template file with the details about your authentication provider server.
1. Copy the template file to a working directory. The templates are located in the following path:
  Dynamic Workload Console
  
  DWC_DATA_dir/usr/servers/dwcServer/configDropins/templates/authentication
  
  master domain manager
  
  TWA_DATA_DIR/usr/servers/engineServer/configDropins/templates/authentication
  Dynamic Workload Console
  
  DWC_home\usr\servers\dwcServer\configDropins\templates\authentication
  
  master domain manager
  
  TWA_home\usr\servers\engineServer\configDropins\templates\authentication
2. Edit the template file in the working directory with the desired configuration.
3. Optionally, create a backup copy of the configuration file in a different directory, if the file is already present. To avoid conflicts, ensure the backup copy is in a directory different from the following directories: configDropins/templates and configDropins/overrides.
4. Copy the updated template file to the overrides directory.
5. The overrides directory is located in the following path:
  Dynamic Workload Console
  
  DWC_DATA_dir/usr/servers/dwcServer/configDropins/overrides
  
  master domain manager
  
  TWA_DATA_DIR/usr/servers/engineServer/configDropins/overrides
  Dynamic Workload Console
  
  DWC_home\usr\servers\dwcServer\configDropins\overrides
  
  master domain manager
  
  TWA_home\usr\servers\engineServer\configDropins\overrides
6. Stop and restart Open Liberty using the stopappserver and startappserver commands located in TWA_home/appservertools.
For more information about configuring an LDAP registry, see the Open Liberty documentation, for example: Configure an LDAP user registry and Federated user registries.

Configuring a basic user registry

About this task

You might want to use a basic user registry by defining the users and groups information for authentication on Open Liberty, even though this type of authentication is not recommended. This type of authentication cannot be used for production, but only for test purposes.

To configure basic user registry, complete the following steps:

Procedure

Copy the auth_basicRegistry_config.xml template from the templates folder to a working folder.
Edit the template file in the working folder with the desired configuration by adding users and groups as necessary.
To add a user, add an entry similar to the following in the basicRegistry section:
```
<user name="nonadminuser" password="{xor}Ozo5PiozKw=="/> 
```
To add a group, add an entry similar to the following in the basicRegistry section:
```
<group name="TWSUsers">
        <member name="nonadminuser"/>
        </group> 
```
Store the password in xor format using the Open Liberty securityUtility command.

This utility requires the JAVA_HOME environment variable to be set. If you do not have Java installed, you can optionally use the Java version provided with the product and available in:

HCL Workload Automation

<INST_DIR>/TWS/JavaExt/jre/jre

Dynamic Workload Console

<DWC_INST_DIR>/java/jre/bin
Create a backup copy of the configuration file in the overrides folder, if already present.
Copy the updated template file to the overrides folder. Maintaining the original folder structure is not required.