Activate security: you can activate XpoLog’s security mechanism by
clicking the ‘Activate security’ check box. Note that after activating the
security mechanism and clicking the ‘save’ link you will be redirected to
XpoLog’s login page, where you will be asked to enter a username and
password to access XpoLog. In addition, a new menu, ‘Security’, will be
added to XpoLog’s top menu.
The default user name and password are: admin
Session time out: use this setting to configure the session timeout
period (in minutes). The default session timeout period is 30 minutes.
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Login URL: use this setting to configure the URL to which users will be
redirected for login.
Authentication: XpoLog provides several different pre-defined
authentications types: XpoLog independent realm, Active
Directory/LDAP, Siteminder and Remote user. Various different
authentication methods have been successfully implemented in
XpoLog over the past few years. In case your company uses a different
authentication method then the one in the available types, please
contact our support team for further assistance.
Active Directory/LDAP Configuration: select LDAP from the table on the
left (‘Available types’), and add it to the ‘Selected types’ table. Click the
‘LDAP configuration’ link:
o General:
(i) Initial context factory - you may leave as default.
(ii) Provider URL - set the connection URL to the LDAP server.
o Manager Settings (this is optional):
(i) Manager Path - the manager DN for searching users.
(ii) Manager password - the manager’s password.
o Search Settings:
(i) Root Path - the path for start searching users.
(ii) Search Filter - how to search the users in the LDAP directory
(the {0} is replaced with user name).
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(iii) User Path - full path of the user DN (the {0} is replaced with user
name). For example: uid={0},ou=people,cn=xplg
(iv) Unique Id - optional, which attribute of the user will be
provided as the unique id of the user.
(v) Display name attribute - optional, which attribute of the user
will be provided as the display name of the user.
o Save the LDAP configuration, and save the general settings
configuration. XpoLog will then authenticate users with the LDAP
server.
Siteminder Configuration: click the Siteminder Configuration link in
order to configure it:
o In order to set more header key for retrieving the user information
which was authenticated, you may use ‘,’ as a separator between
parameters. For Example: HTTP_SM_USER, HTTP_UID – in this case
XpoLog will look for the user first in the HTTP_SM_USER header
key, and then if not found in the HTTP_UID header key.
You may use as many keys as you wish.
o Save the Siteminder configuration, and save the general settings
configuration. XpoLog will then associate users in XpoLog according
to SiteMinder’s authentication.
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To configure security settings:
- In the General Settings console, open the Security tab.
- Select the Activate Security checkbox to require login to XpoLog.
- In Session time out, select the number of minutes of inactivity before XpoLog closes. Default: 30 minutes
- In Login URL, if your organization has an external mechanism that it wants to use for validating login, type the URL; otherwise, leave the default URL.
- Under Authentication, in the Available Types list, select a type, and then click Add.
The selected type appears in the Selected Types list.
For Ldap authentication type, see
For Active Directory authentication type, see
Note: You can remove a type from the Selected Types list by selecting it and clicking Remove. - Click Save.
The Security settings are saved.
If you activated security (in step 2), the login page appears, requiring you to enter username and password. Once you log in, a Security tab appears in the menu.