Managing access to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server

Desktop clients and third-party integrations use offline user tokens to connect to Rational® Test Automation Server.

You can configure the desktop clients and third-party integrations to access Rational® Test Automation Server by using the offline user tokens created from the server.

Offline user tokens are used in the following cases:

To retrieve secrets configured on the server to be used in certain tests in Rational® Integration Tester.
To enable publishing of test results and reports from desktop clients to Rational® Test Automation Server.
To enable the Resource Monitoring Service in Rational® Performance Tester to monitor a data source during a run on Rational® Test Automation Server.
To enable agents to connect with Rational® Test Automation Server.
To enable HTTP proxies to connect with Rational® Test Automation Server.
To enable third-party integrations.

About this task

From Rational® Test Automation Server, you can create an offline user token, copy it, and then use that token to enable connections to be authenticated by Rational® Test Automation Server.

You can also delete all the tokens, when you no longer need access or you want to prevent access to the server.

Procedure

Creating a token

Follow these steps:

Click the User icon from the menu bar, and then select Create Token.

The Create Offline User Token dialog is displayed.

Note: This token is not accessible after you copy it as the dialog box closes.
Copy the token and paste it into a private location for ongoing reference.

The dialog closes.

Paste the token into the desktop client UI or in the application where this token is required.

See the following table for a list of where you can use the tokens and where you can find more information.

Table 1. Using the offline user tokens to access Rational® Test Automation Server
Use the offline user token in the following places	More information
Rational® Integration Tester	See Rational® Integration Tester and Rational® Test Automation Server.
Rational® Performance Tester	See Publishing test results to the server. See Enablement of Resource Monitoring services for a schedule.
Rational® Functional Tester	See Publishing test results to the server.
Third-party integrations	See Integrations with other applications.

Deleting tokens

Follow these steps:
1. Click the User icon from the menu bar and select Delete Tokens.
  
  The Delete All Offline User Tokens dialog is displayed.
2. Inform the desktop client users that the tokens were deleted. Fix any test automation scripts that used tokens.