Main Settings (Authentication Web Service)

To learn about authentication Web services and authentication sources, click here.

To specify the location of your authentication Web service, specify a time-out, and enable or disable authentication sources associated with this Web service:

1. Under Server Information, you can establish and manage remote server associations for this Web service:

• To associate a remote server (or to change an existing association):
1. Click Browse.
2. In the Choose Remote Server dialog box, choose the remote server you want to associate and click OK.

The associated remote server displays to the right of Remote Server, and the location of that remote server in the administrative directory displays to the right of Remote Server Path.

• To edit the remote server, click its name.

• To remove the remote server association, click Remove.

2. Under Authentication Web Service Settings, specify the path and time-out settings for this Web service:

1. In the Authentication URL box, type the path to the authentication provider. If you associated this Web service with a remote server, the base URL displays to the left of the box. You can either type a relative path, finishing the path that starts with the base URL (/myAuthenticationWebService/AuthenticationProvider.asmx), or you can type an absolute path, ignoring the base URL (http://myServer/myAuthenticationWebService/AuthenticationProvider.asmx).

2. For the Authentication SOAP Timeout setting, specify how long you want the portal to try to get the authentication information from the computer hosting the Web service. If the host computer does not return information before the time-out period ends, an error message displays (for example, to the user upon login or in the job log upon completion of an associated authentication source job).
   
   In the text box, type the number of seconds or minutes you want the portal to wait; then, in the drop-down list, click Second(s) or Minute(s).

3. In the Synchronization URL box, type the path to the synchronization provider. If you associated this Web service with a remote server, you can type a relative path or an absolute path.

4. For the Synchronization SOAP Timeout setting, specify how long you want the portal to try to get the synchronization information from the computer hosting the Web Service. If the host computer does not return information before the time-out period ends, an error message displays (for example, to the user upon login or in the job log upon completion of an associated authentication source job).
   
   In the text box, type the number of seconds or minutes you want the portal to wait; then, in the drop-down list, click Second(s) or Minute(s).

3. Under Status of Web Service, specify what should happen when a user tries to access authentication sources associated with this Web service (for example, through login or by running an associated authentication source job):

• To allow this Web service to authenticate or synchronize users, click Enabled.

• To display a message to users when they try to access this Web service, click Disabled with message and type a message in the box.

You can toggle the status of this Web service at any time. For example, you might want to disable a Web service if you need to do maintenance on the host computer or on the Web service itself.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Authentication Web Service Editor:
• To create a new authentication Web service:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object menu, click Web Service - Authentication.
• To edit an existing authentication Web service:
1. Navigate to the authentication Web service you want to edit.
2. Click the authentication Web service name.