General Configuration

This article covers the following general configurations:
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General configuration attributes for Identity Portal infrastructure are listed below.
  1. Second Factor Enabled
    – Select this option to enable all second factor capabilities.
  2. Enable Risk
    – Is Risk feature enabled for CA Identity Portal. True/False.
  3. Enable SSO
    – Is CA SSO protected. True/False.
    Note:
    Changing this parameter requires a restart to all cluster servers.
  4. Require Second Factor on Login
    - Use this functionality to request a 2nd factor authentication immediately after a user logins to the system.
    Note:
    User with no second factor authenticator will not be able to log in to the system.
  5. Debug Mode
    – CA Identity Portal client application is available in two modes:
    1. minified mode
      - All javascript and css files are merged into one file.
    2. regular mode - A
      ll files are downloaded in their original state to the browser.
      By default, debug mode is not enabled and CA Identity Portal operates in minified mode which is optimal for performance.
  6. FileUpload Root
    – The Directory to where files will be uploaded.
  7. IM USER
    – Set a user name that can used by IM in external calls to CA Identity Portal (this is not an actual user in IM).
  8. IM USER Password
    – Set a password for the IM user to be used in external calls from IM to CA Identity Portal.
  9. Client Logging
    1. Logging interval
      – The interval in seconds which the client sends the logs.
    2. Logging level
      – The Log level from 1 to 4 on which the client should work.
    3. Logging users
      – The userids which require to send logging. The client will only log if his userid matches this.
  10. Logout URL
    – The URL to be used when users logout of CA Identity Portal.
    The following default CA Identity Portal page can be configured, if required:
    ../app/login.html
  11. MAX Requests to Fetch
    – Maximum number of requests that CA Identity Portal will fetch when users go to My Requests or Tasks.
  12. Max Upload Size
    – Max size for file attachments in CA Identity Portal.
  13. Plugin Dir
    – The Directory where CA Identity Portal will look for custom code plugins.
  14. Risk Rule Thresholds
    – Reserved for future use.
  15. Risk Rule Thresholds Names
    - Reserved for future use.
  16. SSO User ID header
    – The CA SSO header which contains the universeId used to authenticate to CA Identity Portal.
  17. Temp file lifetime
    – The time period for which CA Identity Portal keeps temporary files. Temporary files are defined as files that have been uploaded in a form but not submitted.
  18. Enable statistics cleaner
    - whether to delete old statistics data that is no longer relevant due to changes in the configurations. if this attribute is not checked the data:
    1) will be marked for deletion
    2) will not be visible in identity portal
    3) will not be deleted from the database.
  19. Enable status puller
    - whether or not to enable IM puller mechanism. To puller mechanism queries IM periodically (every 25 seconds) for any task status updates and updates the requests statuses in the Identity Portal. When using older versions of IM (older than 12.6.8), this check-box should be disabled.
  20. Enable Analytics
    - controls whether analytics data will be collected for the entire system
  21. Day of the week
    - controls the first business day of the used by the analytics module.
  22. Default behavior for data collection
    - controls all permissions and module actions that their analytics collections state is set to "default behavior".
  23. Redirect After Forgot Password
    - Specifies the URL to which the user will be redirected to after completing the Forgot Password procedure. If you leave this field empty, the user is redirected to the system default login page, that is, "/sigma/app/index".
  24. Organization Base DN
    - See Add Organization Selector to a Form.