Configure the API SOAP service

Ensure the API SOAP Service is set to automatic and started .

Optional: Ensure the messages are encrypted, by configuring the API SOAP service and IIS server to listen and communicate over SSL.

Recommended: Create a new administrator with administrative privileges to connect to the Bravura Security Fabric API for the remote connections used by the UNIX trigger.

By default, Bravura Security Fabric includes the _API_USER user. By default, this administrator is only available for shared memory connections to the API that do not require a password.

The new IDAPI caller must be assigned a password before it can be used for remote connections.

1. Click Manage the system > Security > Access to product features > Individual administrators.

2. Click Add new… .

3. Enter a value for the ID (for example: UNIXAPI) and Name.

4. Enter a password and confirm the password.

5. Add the IP Address of the trigger system in the CIDR notation to the Allowed network addresses for remote API access field .

6. Click Update.

Add the newly created administrator for the remote connections to the API to the _EXPLICIT_API_USERS_ user class.

1. Click Manage the system > Policies > User classes > _EXPLICIT_API_USERS _.

2. Click the Explicit users tab.

3. Click Select… .

4. Search for the newly added adminstrator’s ID.

5. Click on the administrator and then Add.

Assign the product administrator "Change passwords" global help desk privileges to complete transparent synchronization.