VT Display Session

The following features are introduced for the VT Display session in HOD Hex Client 4.0 .

• SSH: VT Support only SSH Protocol. SSH (Secure Shell) is a protocol for conducting a secure session over a non-secure network. VT-SSH supports Password and Public Key Authentication.
  • Password Authentication: For Password authentication, a user can give a username and password to log in.
  • Public key Authentication: The user must enter the following values to perform VT-SSH Public Key Authentication.
    • KeyStore Password
    • Public Key Alias
    • Keystore File
  Note:

  The above information will appear only for public key authentication.
• Terminal properties: The following terminal properties are available for the VT Display session.
  1. New-Line Operation
  2. Backspace
  3. Reverse Screen Image
  4. History Log

VT Backend:

VT Backend:

VT Backend service can be started using the Admin Console “Service” tab. Users can perform start and stop operations here.

VT Backend Properties:

To configure the VT backend, the user must specify configuration details in the prodConfig.properties.

#ftp backend port
                port=3090
                #ftp frontend url (CORS)
                url=http://localhost:8080
                #https
                secure=false
                #/lib/
                keystore_path=default
                keyAlias=serverlabel
                passphrase=hodpwd
                #tlsdetails
                tls_keystore_path=default
                tls_passphrase=hodpwd
                #welknowncertificatedetails
                welknown_keystore_path=default
                welknown_keystore_passphrase=hodpwd
                #No Of FTP_Users
                no_of_users=3

• port: Port on which the VT backend (Node js) is running.

• URL: The user can add multiple app server URLs separated by a comma (,) used for the CORS mechanism. Only specified URLs are authenticated to access the FTP backend.

  Syntax: http://AppserverMachineIp:AppserverPort

  Example: http://127.0.0.1:8080

• secure: Boolean variable enables the https in the backend server.
• keystore_path: By default, the value for this property is “default”, which means it will take /bin/HODServerKeyStore.jks file for https. If the user wants to use a different JKS, the user must give the complete path of the JKS.
• keyAlias: Alias to the key that needs to be used for https.
• passphrase: Passphrase for the keystore.

Starting of VT as a Java Admin Console service:

To start VT services in Admin Console, enable AUTO-START for VT service in HOD_Distribution/private/NSMprop. C:\Program Files\HCL\ZIEForWeb\private

Download the required files from Fix Central, place the files in the appropriate folder (as shown in Figure 1), and then restart the HOD service.

Enabling VT Backend Server Configuration from Admin Console:

VT Backend will be running on the HOD server. For the initial release, make the required changes to the server configuration properties and save the configuration under configuration under <distribution Directory>/lib/node/vt_build/config based on the environment.

Figure 1

To configure VT Backend Server Properties:

1. Login to the Admin Console.
2. Click the Services tab in the Admin Console.
3. Click the VT Backend Server Configure button, and a popup appears with all the VT server configuration properties.
4. Update the required configuration properties and Click Save.
5. Restart the server to reflect the modified configuration.