Security overview

There are various levels of security that can be configured:

Note

Currently, only operating system authentication is supported. If you use other authentication mechanisms such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), do not enable full security. To protect access in such cases, use one of the other options, above.

During the configuration step of Agent Controller (via SetConfig.bat or SetConfig.sh), you can choose to enable or disable communications security.  By enabling the security, you ensure that communication to Agent Controller will be encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, and that all connections will be forced to authenticate. 

If the security was enabled in the configuration, you will be prompted as follows for authentication purposes when connecting using the Workbench:             For an untrusted Agent Controller:

Note

When referring to file and directory locations in this document, <install-home> is the directory where the Agent Controller package was unzipped.


Related tasks
Changing Agent Controller security settings after installation

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