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Add Local Authentication

When CA XCOM Gateway schedules the onward transfer using the local CA XCOM Data Transport system, the transfer needs to be authenticated on the local CA XCOM Data Transport system before it can run. So you need to edit the Policy Transfer XML file to add local authentication, using the LOGON element.

The LOGON element needs to be inserted within the LOCAL element, and includes the attributes shown below:

<TRANSFERITEM>

<LOCAL>

<LOGON 
   DOMAIN="domainname"          (Max 15 characters)
   KEY="key"                    (8 hex digits)
   PASSWORD="password"          (62 hex digits)
   PLAINPASSWORD="password"     (Max 31 characters)
   USER="userid"/>              (Max 12 characters)

...
</LOCAL>

</TRANSFERITEM>

Notes:

• So that the local CA XCOM Data Transport system will authenticate the transfer, you need to specify USER, PASSWORD, and DOMAIN.
• If you set the KEY attribute, then it indicates that the password is encrypted and represented in HEX format. You can specify a plain password (unencrypted) with the attribute PLAINPASSWORD=<your plain password>. If you do not want to use a plain password, then create one more dummy transfer record in the CA XCOM Data Transport GUI, putting your USERID and PASSWORD in the remote system parameters. When you save the configuration file to a separate XML file, the CA XCOM Data Transport GUI encrypts the password and saves it to that XML file. You can then copy the KEY and PASSWORD from the dummy XML to the Policy Transfer XML.

Example

Before you add the logon element for authentication, the <LOCAL> element is as follows:

<LOCAL>

<FILE NAME="ANY"><ENCRYPTION CIPHER="NONE" HASH="NONE"/></FILE>
<LOGON USER=""/>

</LOCAL>

After you add the logon element for authentication, the <LOCAL> element is as follows:

<LOCAL>

<FILE NAME="ANY"><ENCRYPTION CIPHER="NONE" HASH="NONE"/></FILE>
<LOGON USER="user04" DOMAIN=”dom-a01” KEY="ED2C27B5" PASSWORD="A2A4A011419A9D15A201FC8C013F3EC7F4314AD713403ACCFF332CD80F523B"/>

</LOCAL>

Important! The user added in the LOGON element must have the privilege to extract the file from the CA XCOM Gateway policy.

Now you can copy and import the Policy Transfer XML that you have created.

Go to Copy and Import Policy Transfer XML.