HATS administrative console support and server considerations

Answer

HATS Administrative Console support is enabled for the IBM Bluemix, the IBM WebSphere Liberty, and the Geronimo servers. To enable it, select "Add administrative console support" on the HATS "Create a Project" page while creating a HATS project.

However the HATS remote administration function is not allowed for these servers (allowed only for IBM WebSphere and Oracle Weblogic) and managing HATS applications from stand alone HATS admin project or from other HATS application is not allowed. Management scope is always the scope of the deployed HATS project in which hats administrative console is enabled.

User authentication can be enabled with appropriate configuration in HATS web application and as well as in respective server, though all three HATS administrative console roles have same capabilities.

HATS admin considerations for Geronimo:

To execute HATS admin console without security, remove or comment following lines in web.xml and deploy HATS application, otherwise application deployment fails.

<security-constraint>
<display-name>Admin Security Constraint</display-name>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>HATSAdmin Protected Area</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>
/hatsadmin/admin</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>
/hatsadmin/admin.jsp</url-pattern>
<http-method>GET</http-method>
<http-method>POST</http-method>
<http-method>PUT</http-method>

<http-method>DELETE</http-method>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description>
HATS Admin:+:</description>
<role-name>HATSAdministrator</role-name>
<role-name>HATSOperator</role-name>
<role-name>HATSMonitor</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
<user-data-constraint>
<transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/hatsadmin/login.jsp</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/hatsadmin/login_error.jsp</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<role-name>HATSAdministrator</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-role>
<role-name>HATSOperator</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-role>
<role-name>HATSMonitor</role-name>
</security-role>