Using ARIS Administration for user management

While setting up ARIS Publisher Server you can switch this server's user management to the ARIS Administration of another operative ARIS Server. If you did not do so ARIS Publisher Server uses its own user management as other ARIS Servers using the ARIS Administration. This means that the ARIS Publisher Server administrator has to manage users separately and ARIS document storage will not be available in publisher exports automatically.

If you already use ARIS Server you can force ARIS Publisher Server manually to use the ARIS Administration of your productive ARIS Server installation. Settings entered during the setup process can be adjusted. Use the reconfigure ACC command (see ARIS Cloud Controller (ACC) Command-Line Tool.pdf) to change settings.

Prerequisite

You have checked the URL of the ARIS Server to connect to the ARIS Administration (syntax: http://<aris-design-or-connect-srv>.domain.tld:<port number>/umc.

Procedure

  1. Start ARIS Cloud Controller on your ARIS Publisher Server.
  2. To stop the runnable enter: stop businesspublisher_<s,m or l>
  3. Reconfigure businesspublisher_<s,m or l> and force that runnable to use the ARIS Administration of your ARIS Server installation.

    Ensure that all values used in the reconfigure command, for example, for the keys username or password actually match to the values used in the <ARIS installation path>\server\bin\work\work_businesspublisher_<s, m or l>\base\webapps\businesspublisher\config\webappserver.cfg file and the umcconfig.cfg file. If typing errors happened during the setup process the affected values must be adjusted.

    For better readability, the parameters of the reconfigure command are shown with line-wraps.

    bp.login.module="UMCLogin"

    UMCLogin can be found in the webappserver.cfg file. It switches the ARIS Publisher Server's user management to the User Management of the defined ARIS server's ARIS Administration.

    bp.umc.server.url="http://<aris-design-or-connect-srv>.domain.tld:<port number>/umc"

    This URL can be found in the umcconfig.cfg file. It directs to the user management of the ARIS server's ARIS Administration. Please enter the port number that has been used during the setup process. The default port number is 80 (Windows operating systems) or 1080 (Linux operating systems).

    bp.umc.admin.login="superuser"

    bp.umc.admin.passwd="<superuser's password>"

    The ARIS Administration user's user name and password can be found in the umcconfig.cfg file. By default the superuser user has access to the user management and holds all required permissions.

  4. For execution you must enter a single-line command, for example:

    reconfigure businesspublisher_<s,m or l> bp.login.module="UMCLogin" bp.umc.server.url="http://<aris-design-srv>.domain.tld:<port number>/umc" bp.umc.admin.login="superuser" bp.umc.admin.passwd="<superuser's password>"

  5. To start the businesspublisher_<s, m or l> runnable again, enter: start businesspublisher_<s,m or l>

This runnable is reconfigured. Publisher users are authenticated via ARIS Administration and ARIS document storage will be available if it has been connected to the ARIS Publisher Server.