Enterprise Service Mode - HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation User Manual

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Enterprise Service Mode

Using the Enterprise Service
The Enterprise Service (ES) supports assignment of systems to users and
management of user settings and properties through a standard network service.
The advantages of the Enterprise Service over using Directory Mode are:
Using a network service, a centralized database or enterprise directory
infrastructure can store systems assigned to a user. A service can support
dynamic and complex business logic for system assignment.
Users authenticate against the Enterprise Service.
The Receiver can also read and write the user's properties.
The Enterprise Service comes as a Software Development Kit (SDK). Developers use
the SDK to adapt and customize their required enterprise solution. Consequently, the
ES SDK does not directly implement the specific functionality required for assigning
and looking up user systems and settings. For example, the SDK does not provide
ready-to-use Active Directory or LDAP integration itself. The SDK provides the ICE
interfaces and a sample implementation written in Python. ICE (Internet
Communications Engine - see http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html) is a modern
alternative to object middleware such as CORBA™ or COM/DCOM/COM+, with
support for C++, Java, Python, PHP, C# and Visual Basic.
The sample implementation demonstrates a simple XML file as the enterprise
directory. Associated with the XML is a DTD that specifies a precise and legal set of
XML elements and attributes that represent syntax to specify the user to machine
mappings as well as the user RGS Properties. This sample implementation can be
used to test the Enterprise Service and become familiar with its capabilities. Simply
add a set of test users and user settings to the XML file, start the Enterprise Service,
and connect to RGS Senders from a RGS Receiver using the service. After the sample
is working, the job of creating an implementation that interacts with a customers
enterprise directory can begin.
To learn more about the SDK, review the README.txt file in the ES installation. It
explains the purpose and usage of each file in the installation.
Starting the RGS Receiver in Enterprise Service mode
When the RGS Receiver starts in Enterprise Service Mode using the command line
option -esdir, the Receiver connects to the Enterprise Service. The user will then
authenticate with the ES.
After the user authenticates, the Receier reads from the Enterprise Service a list of
systems assigned to the user and specified by hostname or ipadress. The Receiver
will try to connect to the specified systems.
If the command line option also specifies option -esdirsettings, the Receiver gets
the properties that the Receiver should use from the ES. The properties specify
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