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Deploy User Data Service (UDS)

CA Risk Authentication can access user data from a RDBMS or directly from an LDAP server by using the User Data Service (UDS).

The USD is an abstraction layer that provides CA Risk Authentication seamless access to the third-party data repositories deployed by your organization.

Follow these steps:

1. Deploy arcotuds.war on the application server. This file is available at:

   <install_location>\Arcot Systems\java\webapps\
   

   Example: In the case of Apache Tomcat, deploy the WAR file at <APP_SERVER_HOME>\webapps\.

   Note: The deployment procedure depends on the application server that you are using. See the application server vendor documentation for detailed instructions.

2. (WebSphere Only) Configure to reload the UDS class when the application files are updated. Follow these steps:
   1. Navigate to Applications, Application Types, WebSphere Enterprise Applications and access the UDS settings screen.
   2. Under Class loader order, select the Classes loaded with local class loader first (parent last) option.
   3. Under WAR class loader policy, select the Single class loader for application.
   4. Click Apply.
3. Restart the application server.
4. Verify if UDS is deployed successfully. Follow these steps:

   Note: The arcotuds.log file is used for logging UDS-related information.

   1. Navigate to the following location:

      <install_location>\Arcot Systems\logs\
      

   2. Open the arcotuds.log file in any editor and locate the following line:
      • User Data Service (Version: 2.0.3) initialized successfully.

      This line indicates that UDS was deployed successfully.

   3. Ensure that the log files do not contain any FATAL and WARNING messages.
   4. Close the file.