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  1. Preface
  2. Starting Data Archive
  3. System Configuration
  4. Database Users and Privileges
  5. Source Connections
  6. Target Connections
  7. Archive Store Configuration
  8. Datatype Mapping
  9. Database Optimization
  10. SAP Application Retirement
  11. z/OS Source Data Retirement
  12. Seamless Data Access
  13. Data Discovery Portal
  14. Security
  15. SSL Communication with Data Vault
  16. LDAP User Authentication
  17. Auditing
  18. Running Jobs from External Applications
  19. Salesforce Archiving Administrator Tasks
  20. Upgrading Oracle History Data
  21. Upgrading PeopleSoft History Data
  22. Data Archive Maintenance
  23. Storage Classifications
  24. Appendix A: Datetime and Numeric Formatting
  25. Appendix B: Data Archive Connectivity

Administrator Guide

Administrator Guide

API Authentication

API Authentication

You can enable API authentication to check if a password given in the URL is valid. To enable or disable API authentication, configure the "informia.api.authentication" parameter in the
conf.properties
file.
When you configure the parameter to enable API authentication, you must also provide an encrypted user password in the URL parameters. To generate the required encrypted password, use the encryptPassword.bat or encryptPassword.sh utility. The utilities are available in the Data Archive installation folder.
Password authentication is available only for API's built with the authentication mechanism. Refer to the individual API documentation in this chapter to determine if an API supports password authentication.
  1. To enable or disable API authentication, open the
    conf.properties
    file from the Data Archive installation folder and configure the following parameter:
    Informia.api.authentication
    The default value of this parameter is N. Valid inputs are Y and N.
  2. To generate the encrypted password required for the URL password parameter, run the encryptPassword.bat (on Microsoft Windows) or the encryptPassword.sh (on Linux and UNIX) utility from the command line. Input the password for the username running the API.
    The utility returns an encrypted password that you can copy and paste into the URL parameters.

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