How-to: Setting up client endpoints for Exact Lightweight Integration Server (ELIS)
Introduction
Note:
- This document is only relevant to the controlled release participants.
- This is not available for Exact Cloud customers.
This document describes the way to
configure a product or client for Exact Lightweight Integration Server (ELIS).
The supported actions are adding, editing, and removing a product or client.
Scope
This document describes the following:
- Installing a product or client in ELIS.
- Editing and removing a product or client.
- Dealing with different scenarios that occur
during editing or deleting a client.
Prerequisites
- ELIS management
console
- Endpoint package (Exact Synergy Enterprise and
Exact Globe+)
Installing products
To install a product, go to Products,
and then click Add on the ELIS management console. The following
screen will be displayed:
At Directory, click Select file
to select the endpoint package.
Click Save.
Once the package is installed, the main
navigation tree will be updated and the installed package will be added in the Products
screen.
Removing products
To remove a product, click Remove, and
then click OK.
Installing endpoints
Note: The user credentials must be defined if you are using Service management or Central Master Data Management (CMDM).
Installing Exact Synergy Enterprise
To set up the Exact Synergy Enterprise
client endpoint, select Exact Synergy Enterprise under the Products category
in the ELIS management console, and the following screen will be
displayed:
After selecting the required tenant at Tenant,
click Add to add the new endpoint. The following screen will be
displayed:
Use the scrollbar to view all the fields in this screen.
Define the following fields:
- Tenant - The
selected tenant is displayed. This field cannot be edited.
- Product - The
product selected from the tree view is displayed. This field cannot be edited.
- Name - Type
the name of the client product.
- Address - Type
the web address of Exact Synergy Enterprise based on the
“http(s)://<servername>/<virtual directory name>” format.
- Create request - Select this check box to review an alert for the request created in
Exact Synergy Enterprise.
- Only for messages originated from Synergy
- Select this check box to receive an alert
only for the messages originating from Exact Synergy Enterprise.
- Requests ID - Type the ID of the request type used for the alert of the request created in Exact Synergy Enterprise. This field is mandatory if the Create request check box is selected
- Authentication mode - Select Windows
Authentication, Basic Authentication, WAAD Authentication, or Auth0 Authentication. Depending on the
authentication mode selected, different information will be required based on
the following:
WAAD Information section
The information in this section is required only if WAAD Authentication is selected at Authentication mode.
Auth0 information section
The information in this section is required only if Auth0 Authentication is selected at Authentication mode.
- Domain - Type
the name of the domain to which the user belongs. This user must be an
administrator in Exact Synergy Enterprise.
- Username - Type
the user’s username.
- Password - Type
the user’s password. If the user's password has been changed for the Exact services, you have to delete and create the configurations so that the new password will be active for the configurations.
- Alert settings - Click the icon to define the email address (use the “;” separator if
there is more than one email address). An email will be sent to the email
address(es) once the synchronization fails. This will only work if the
connection to the SMTP server has been configured.
Click Connect in the Add new
client screen to check whether the selected endpoint is valid. If the
endpoint is valid, the product version and word “Connected” will be displayed.
Click Save to save the endpoint in the server. For example:
Note: You
cannot save the endpoint if it is invalid.
The created endpoint will be displayed in
the main screen.
Installing Exact Globe+
To set up the Exact Globe+ client
endpoint, select Exact Globe+ under the Products category in
the ELIS management console, and the following screen will be displayed:
After selecting the required tenant at Tenant,
click Add to add the new endpoint. The following screen will be
displayed:
Use the scrollbar to view all the fields in this screen.
Define the following fields:
- Tenant - The
selected tenant is displayed. This field cannot be edited.
- Product - The
product selected from the tree view is displayed. This field cannot be edited.
- Name - Type
the name of the client product.
- Address - Type
the web address of Exact Globe+ based on the
“http(s)://<servername>/<virtual directory name>” format.
- SQL server - Type the name of the SQL server where the Exact Globe database
of the client endpoint is stored.
- Database name - Type the name of the Exact Globe database to which you want to
connect.
- Authentication
mode — Select Windows
Authentication, WAAD Authentication,
or Auth0 Authentication. Depending
on the authentication mode selected, the following information must be defined in
the following sections:
WAAD
information section
The information in this section is required only
if WAAD Authentication is defined at
Authentication mode.
Auth0
information section
The information in this section is required only
if Auth0 Authentication is selected
at Authentication mode.
- Domain - Type
the name of the domain to which the user belongs. This user must be an
administrator in Exact Synergy Enterprise.
- Username - Type
the user’s username.
- Password - Type
the user’s password. If the user's password has been changed for the Exact services, you have to delete and create the configurations so that the new password will be active for the configurations.
- Alert settings - Click the icon to define the email address (use the “;” separator if
there is more than one email address). An email will be sent to the email
address(es) once the synchronization fails. This will only work if the
connection to the SMTP server has been configured.
Click Connect in the Add new
client screen to check whether the selected endpoint is valid. If the
endpoint is valid, the product version and word “Connected” will be displayed.
Click Save to save the endpoint in the server. For example:
Note: You
cannot save the endpoint if it is invalid.
The created endpoint will be displayed in
the main screen.
Editing endpoints
Open the product to be edited in the ELIS
management console.
Click Edit. The following screen
will be displayed:
Note: If any
there is an activation linked to the endpoint, the Address, Database
server name, and Database name fields cannot be edited until the
activation is removed. The Database server name and Database name
fields are only available for the Exact Globe+ endpoint product.
Removing endpoints
To remove an endpoint, open the product to
be edited in the ELIS management console, and then click Remove. After
that, click Yes to proceed with the removal of the endpoint.
Note: If the
endpoint is no longer valid, the following confirmation message will be
displayed. If you click Yes, only the endpoint in the server will be
removed while the records will still be in the client database. Use the repair
tool to remove the records from the client database.
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