RApp Password form

The AR System user password is not stored as part of the AR System connection defined in a transformation for security reasons. The steps provided by BMC use an impersonation API to connect to the AR System server. These steps query this form with the server name defined in the AR Connection to get the AR System Application Service password for that server.

The following steps are provided by BMC:

1. Create an initial connection to the server using the AR System Application Service user name and password queried earlier from this form
2. Impersonate the user named in the AR Connection definition.

By default, the installer populates this form with the current AR System server's name and AR System Application Service password. If you must create connections using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP address, enter the alternative entries in this form. For example, if you want to create remote server connections, enter information about the remote server in this form.

UDM:RAppPassword form

The form contains the following fields:

• Server Name—The AR System server name to which a connection must be created from a transformation. You need to update the AR System server name if you are performing one of the actions listed below: 
  • Configure UDM in a server group—In a server group environment, multiple servers exist. Make sure that the RappPassword form contains all the possible server name values that you use. This is required as the UDM:RappPassword form is used to authenticate AR System application service password for the $server$ value that comes from the Mid Tier. The $server$ can be host name, IP address, alias name, or Load Balancer name. Incorrect or missing information on this form might result in load step failure.

  • In the example below, the UDM:RappPassword form contains the alias names for AR System server and Load Balancer.

    • newsc-s—AR System server alias name 
    • newscorp-vip—LB alias name

    

  • Configure UDM in a non-server environment—As a single server exists in the non-server environment, the Server Name field automatically reflects the server name.
  • Restore the database—After the data migration, you must verify and update the Server Name field if you want to perform testing before making the server as new production server.

• RApp Password—The AR System  Application Service Password supplied during AR System server installation.

  This password is supplied on the AR System Administration: Server Information form Connection Settings tab and should remain the same for all AR System servers.

Load balancer names

If AR System server are configured in an environment where a load balancer is used, the following parameters change:

• The Server-Name parameter changes to the name of the load balancer.
• The Server-Connect-Name parameter changes to the name of AR System server on each server.

For either of the following situations, populate the UDM:RAppPassword form with the load balancer server name and its password which is the same as the Application Service Password on the other AR System server:

• A load balancer server name is provided for a AR System server connection in the BMC-provided Pentaho step such as ARInput, AROutput, or CMDB.
• A load balancer is defined in the UDM:Variable form.

 If you change the application password you must also update the RApp password.