IBM Support

Adding users to a Rational Asset Manager server in a non-LDAP environment

Question & Answer


Question

Normally Rational Asset Manager would be set up to authenticate using LDAP. When working without an LDAP directory this is not needed; for example in a testing scenario, an alternative method is available.

Answer

Although not recommended in a production system, one can add the respective user(s) to the users.props and groups.props files located in the path:
<RAM <br />install dir>/conf/security. Use the attached instructions to modify the users.props and groups.props files.

Use the following information as a reference.

Format of the groups.props file:
 name:gid:users:display name
 where name   = groupId of the group
       gid    = uniqueId of the group
       users  = list of all the userIds that the group contains
       display name = a (optional) display name for the group.

Format of the users.props file:
name:passwd:uid:gids:display name
where name   = userId/userName of the user
       passwd = password of the user
       uid    = uniqueId of the user
       gid    = groupIds of the groups that the user belongs to
       display name = a (optional) display name for the user.

Then restart the server.
Following the addition of a user, that user will first need to 'register' in Rational Asset Manager before an administator can add them to a community. To register, a user needs only to sign in to Rational Asset Manager, using the credentials entered in files above.

Enable WAS Security in WAS.doc

[{"Product":{"code":"SSUS84","label":"Rational Asset Manager"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU053","label":"Cloud & Data Platform"},"Component":"Server","Platform":[{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"7.0;7.0.0.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB45","label":"Automation"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21272844