Configuring a Credential Vault for overlay reports | HCL Digital Experience

You can set up the Credential Vault by one of the following three methods:

• Manually by using the Credential Vault portlet in the section for Access and Managing credential information of the portal administration. For details, refer to the portlet help about Managing credential information and Adding a vault slot.
• By using the XML configuration interface portlet. For details refer to the Import XML portlet help Importing an XML configuration file.
• By importing an XML configuration interface script. For details, refer to the topics about working with the portal XML configuration interface.

Also refer to Portlet authentication.

Make sure you store the following Coremetrics® user information:

• The Coremetrics® client ID
• The Coremetrics® user name
• The Coremetrics® authentication key.

For example: If you have a Coremetrics® user name Bob and a Coremetrics® client ID 123456789, enter these values as "Bob#123456789" in the credential slot. Here is a sample XML configuraion interface script for creating required Credential Vault entries:

<request    
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"    
   xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="PortalConfig_8.5.0.xsd"    
   type="update" create-oids="true">        
   <!-- Sample for updating the Credential Vault. 
        This script creates a new segment containing one slot in the portal Credential Vault.
        The credentials (user ID and password pairs) that are stored in the vault cannot be 
        accessed by using the XML configuration interface. You can only set the credentials 
        by using the portal administration portlets for the Credential Vault. -->   
   <portal action="locate">           
      <credential-segment action="update" adapter-type="default" 
                          name="com.ibm.portal.asa.coremetrics.segment" user-mapped="false">
         <description>Segment containing credentials for Coremetrics</description>          
         <credential-slot action="update" name="com.ibm.portal.asa.coremetrics.slot" 
                          active="false" system="true" resource="none" 
                          secrettype="userid-password">                
            <localedata locale="en">                    
               <description>Credentials for accessing the CoreMetrics server</description>
               <keywords>CoreMetrics</keywords>      
            </localedata> 
            <password-secret action="create" user="user_id" 
               external-id="coremetrics_user_name#coremetrics_client_id">coremetrics_auth_key
            </password-secret>            
         </credential-slot>        
      </credential-segment>    
   </portal>
</request>

In the sample XML script, replace the following variables with your actual Coremetrics® user data values:

user_id

Replace this variable with the user ID that is defined under the Resource Environment Provider WP_VaultService in the entry systemcred.dn .

coremetrics_user_name

Replace this variable by your Coremetrics® user name.

coremetrics_client_id

Replace this by your Coremetrics® client ID.

coremetrics_auth_key

Replace this by your authentication key used by Coremetrics®. This allows URL queries to the Coremetrics® system.