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Personal Dashboard user authentication

Activating user authentication​

  1. Access your Personal Dashboard.
  2. Select the Settings tab→SSL tab and provide the password and the path to the SSL Certificate, then restart the End User Services Service.
    Personal Dashboard Settings page, SSL tab, with the certificate password, the Browse button, and a Restart required message.

Note: if previously your Personal Dashboard was not secured with the SSL configuration, make sure you issue a new authorization file at EasyAdmin User interface→ Start → Administration → System&Security →Security →Authorization→ADD. Then go to C:\Program Files\OpenLM\End-User Services and replace the existing authorization file with the newly created one, and restart the End User Services Service.

  1. Now reopen your Personal Dashboard with the updated address: https://fqdn:53555.
  2. Switch to the SECURITY tab and check the Enable user authentication box.
  3. Personal Dashboard Settings page, Security tab, with Enable user authentication selected and the Save button.
  4. Restart the End User Services Service and, if necessary, refresh the page. We observe that now it is possible to log out from our Personal Dashboard Account:
    Personal Dashboard showing the log out option after user authentication is enabled.

How to filter the License Managers' information available in PD​

Administrators might want OpenLM Personal Dashboard Users to only see specific servers/licenses and not all of them, as the default setting. For this ACL must be enforced for the Personal Dashboard.

  1. Access the EasyAdmin User Interface→Administration→Roles. The Roles Window opens.
    EasyAdmin Roles window used to create a role for filtering license servers.
  2. Select Add. Provide a Role name and description. Select Save.
  3. After Selecting Save, the Resources tab is enabled. Select it then → Add.
  4. Select the desired resources:Resources tab where license server resources are added to the role.
  5. Switch to the Role Details tab and select Users→ADD:Role Details tab with the Users section for assigning the role.
  6. Select the users to assign this role:
    Selecting the users to assign the new role to.
  7. Go back to Administration→Roles, open agent_query_role→Groups, and delete the OpenLM_Everyone group:
    Removing the OpenLM_Everyone group from the agent_query_role Groups tab.
  8. Restart the OpenLM SLM and End-User Service services
  9. Now the Personal Dashboard User will only see the servers that have been assigned to them.
Last updated on by Maria Gilca

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