5.24.2.3 Developer Tips

General Tips

Is the password encrypted while transmitting from Client to Server (FE) in NMS ?

Yes. In general the password is always encrypted in NMS and then transmitted from client to server.

By default, how the security level is defined in NMS ?

There are two levels defined in NMS :

Users - Guest users, privilege to login, and to see all the data.

Admin - Super users / Administrators have all the privileges.

How to plug-in custom authentication mechanism?

For complete information, refer to Implementing Custom Authentication.

How to configure the password on first login?

Edit the NmsProcessBE.conf file (located ion <Web NMS Home>/conf directory), as shown below

#java com.adventnet.nms.security.authorization.NmsAuthManager [ AuthorizationEngineImpl

] [ AuthorizationAdminImpl ] [ time_interval_for_security_scheduler in

ms ] [ change_password_for_firsttime_login ][AuthAuditAPIImpl]

PROCESS com.adventnet.nms.security.authorization.NmsAuthManager

ARGS NULL NULL 0 false

By default the value of the parameter named change_password_for_firsttime_login is set to false. This implies that Password Configuration Dialog will not come when the users login for the first time. Change the value of change_password_for_firsttime_login to "true" and start the server.

Note: Users added after these 2 steps will only get the Password Configuration Dialog on their first login.