Configuring TextChart Data Access Server for LDAP authentication

If a site-wide authentication and authorization system is available via LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), then the TextChart Manager may be set up to access this directory to authorize access to the management UI.

To set up LDAP, first set the authType property in the file manager.properties to the value ldap, such as

authType=ldap

If you wish to restrict access to the TextChart Manager UI to members of a particular LDAP group, then also set the authGroup property to the name of the group that is allowed access to the TextChart Manager. For example, if the name of the allowed group is "TextChartUsers", then set the property such as

authGroup=TextChartUsers

To allow all authenticated users to access the Server UI, either do not set the property or set it to the default value, "**".

Save these changes to the manager.properties file.

Next, one must configure settings so that the TextChart Manager can access the LDAP server. To do this, edit the file conf/ldap.conf in the Manager installation. A sample file is provided, and one should only need to change the property values in order to adapt to the site environment. Because of the complexity of interfacing with LDAP, TextChart recommends contacting your site IT department for assistance in setting the values in the LDAP configuration file.

For using Studio with an LDAPS (LDAP with SSL) server, Configuring SSL for TextChart Series 7 provides information for creating and managing SSL certificates and key stores.

After changes to both the manager.properties and conf/ldap.conf file have been finalized, restart the Manager service (either via the UI or via Linux service management methods) to cause the changes to take effect.