Testing connections for a target system
You can perform the following tests to help determine whether your target system has been set up and added to Bravura Security Fabric correctly (required client software is installed, target system address and target system administrator credentials are accurate, and so on). This is not supported for IT Service Management (Ticket) systems.
Administrator credentials
For this test, Bravura Security Fabric performs simple password verifications using the selected target system administrators’ credentials. The test uses the connector’s ’get server information’ operation.
To run this test:
Navigate to the target system’s Test connection page (Manage the System > Resources > Target systems> [Manually defined | Automatically discovered] > < Target system >).
If required, clear the checkboxes next to the target system administrator whose credentials you do not want to test.
Click Test credentials.
Bravura Security Fabric displays the results next to each target system administrator .
Warning
Depending on your target system’s security policies, testing an invalid password too many times may trigger an intruder lockout on that system. Do not repeat this operation if you are unsure of the actual password.
User lists
For this test, Bravura Security Fabric performs a list operation to enumerate user accounts on the target system. The results of the list operation are for testing purposes only and, unlike during auto discovery , will not be loaded into the database.
Warning
Listing can be a costly operation on the target system. When you click Test list , the operation is run to completion which may take a long time on some systems.
To run this test:
Navigate to the target system’s Test connection page (Manage the System > Resources > Target systems> [Manually defined | Automatically discovered] > < Target system > ).
If required, type the Timeout (in seconds) for list operation.
You may need to increase the timeout if there are many accounts on the target system.
Click Test list.
Bravura Security Fabric begins the user list operation.
Click Show users to display the contents of the generated user list file (<target ID>.test.db).
Conversely, you can click Hide users to hide the list file contents.
While the list operation is running, you can click the Refresh button in the Bravura Security Fabric navigation bar to update the page status. When the operation completes, the “Number of users found” should match the number of accounts on the target system.
See also
The Test list button executes the testlist program. See below for usage information.
Use the testlist program to test the user list operation for a specified target system.
This program generates a SQLite-based user list file, <target ID>.test.db, in the \<instance>\psconfig\ directory. This program is run by the Manage the system (PSA) module when you click Test list on a target’s Test connection page .
testlist -targetid <target ID> -timeout <seconds>
Argument | Description |
|---|---|
-h, --help | Print out help/usage message and exit |
-v, --version | Print out version and exit |
-quiet | Only output result of operation |
-targetid <target ID> | The ID of the target system for which to perform the user list operation |
-testconnect | Execute serverinfo operation to test target connection |
-timeout <seconds> | The timeout, in seconds, for the list operation |
To test the list operation for your WINDOM1 target system, run:
testlist.exe -targetid WINDOM1
To execute serverinfo during the list operation where list operation will timeout after specified seconds, run:
testlist.exe -targetid WINDOM1 -testconnect -timeout 60