For System Administrators of the Wide Area Corporate Edition only.
The setup program will normally establish all the settings you need to run ResSched normally. However, you may have special requirements such as SSL encryption, or need to change some of the connection and access settings such as the port used by the server. There are two utilities installed in the ResSched Corporate Wide Area program group on the server :
1) The IP Server Manager lets you control and configure the Soft Velocity IP Data Server service, including the port it uses. The Service Status must show 'running' to use ResSched or the Remote Access Administrator. 'Server Connection Failed' errors are most often caused by the service not running.
2) The Remote Access Administrator lets you modify your connection settings and authorize access to your data files. With the possible exception of changing the server time out settings, there is usually little need to use this utility. To use the Remote Access Administrator, you must have the Java Development Kit or Java run time engine 1.4 or greater already installed on your server. If you don't, you can download the JDK or run time engine from http://java.sun.com/downloads/index.html. At the time of writing, the latest run time environment was the Java Platform Standard Edition, JRE 5.0 Update 10.
When you run the Remote Access Administrator, choose Connection>Connect to IP Server. Enter Administrator as the user name without a password. If you have changed the port, enter the hostname and new port separated by a : as shown for the default entry for the Server field. Click Connect. Under Data Managers, you should see IP_ResSched.dll as shown here.
Registering the IP_ResSched.dll
Should the IP_ResSched.dll Data Manager be missing, right click on Data Managers and select Register Data Managers. Select IP_ResSched.dll and click Register. Click the + beside Data Managers to expand the section and select IP_ResSched.dll under Data Managers. A list of tables should appear. Right click on any of the tables and select Table Permissions. You should see two ID's, Administrator and Guest, both with all boxes checked. Click Apply to All Tables and then OK.
Changing the Server Time Out
By default ResSched will shut down a connection between the server and workstation if there has been not activity for 120 minutes. You can change that time out period by selecting the IP_ResSched.dll and then clicking Tools.
The Remote Access Administrator also lets add and modify accounts. All ResSched users use the Guest account. However, you may want to add a password to Administrator or create another administrator account. Note: the administrator accounts in the IP Driver have nothing to do with System and Resource Administrators in ResSched.
SSL Encryption
ResSched Wide Area lets you use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption. Simply choose the SSL port (by default 2340) when you log in.
SSL works with key pair files. The ResSched Wide Area installation program places one key pair file, server.pem, in the server data folder and the other, client.pem, in your workstation ResSched program folder. These key pair files work but they are not unique to your organization, so another organization using these same key files could unencrypted data you send over the Internet.
To generate your own unique keys, you must use the OpenSSL tookit. Openssl.exe program is a command line tool for using the various cryptography functions of OpenSSL's crypto library. You can obtain the OpenSSL utilities from various Internet download sites. OpenSSL is available for download in source format from http://www.openssl.org. There are also pre-built binary versions available for download, one source for a Win32 binary version is the Win32 OpenSSL Installation Project available from: http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html. ResSched uses the PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) format and your keys should be named server.pem and client.pem.
LEGAL NOTICE: This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/). The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style license, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions. For details of the license please refer to http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html.