Configuring the onboarding and content import link for secured login

If you have enabled secured login (https) for BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting, you must perform the following configuration on the Apache Tomcat server. Having a secured login is optional. If you do not use secured login, you can run the user onboarding process directly .

To configure secured login

1. On the BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting server, create a onboarding.keystore keystore file with a password by running the following command from the Java installation folder (for example, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\bin).

   keytool -genkey -alias server-alias -keyalg RSA -keypass password -storepass password -keystore <temporarypath to store file>

   
   A keystore file (for example, C:\keystore_pwd\onboarding.keystore) is created.

2. If the Apache Tomcat server is running, stop it.

3. Move the keystore file to the SmartReporting folder below the BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting installation folder.
   For example, if BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting is installed in C:\Reporting, move the keystore file to C:\Reporting\SmartReporting\onboarding.keystore.
4. Edit the server.xml file in the RemedySmartReportingInstallLocation\appserver\conf folder.

5. Uncomment the following code in the file and update the keystoreFile and keystorepass values per the BMC Helix ITSM: Smart Reporting server details:

   <Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
   SSLEnabled="true" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false"
   sslProtocol="TLS" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150"
   minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false"
   disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
   keystoreFile="C:\Reporting\SmartReporting\onboarding.keystore"
   keystorePass="password" />

6. (Optional) To automatically direct the request to https instead of http, edit the web.xml file located at RemedySmartReportingInstallLocation\appserver\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF or RemedySmartReportingInstallLocation\SmartReporting\appserver\webapps\onboarding\WEB-INF, and add the following code:

   <security-constraint>  
   <web-resource-collection>
   <web-resource-name>Automatic SSL Forwarding</web-resource-name>
   <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
   </web-resource-collection>
   <user-data-constraint>
   <transport-guarantee>
   CONFIDENTIAL
   </transport-guarantee>
   </user-data-constraint>
   </security-constraint>

7. Restart the Apache Tomcat server.
8. Access the user onboarding and content import link (http://reportingServerHostName:port/onboarding/), and verify that you can access the page.