This section describes how to deploy, start and register your connectors in an RPM deployment.

All the connectors which were part of the RPM distribution can be found in the /usr/local/openiam/connectors/bin/ directory. If the connector you are looking for was not part of the distribution, download it from the OpenIAM website and copy it to the above directory. Ensure that the connector files are owned by openiam

chown openiam:openiam [file name]

To start the connector, use the following command

systemctl start openiam-connector@[connector_name]

Deploying the remote connector

A remote connector is a connector deployed outside the OpenIAM environment.

All Microsoft application connectors are remote connectors.

To allow remote connectors to connect to RabbitMQ, we should allow access to port 5672. For example, On CentOS 7 you can open ports with command

firewall-cmd --add-port=5672/tcp --permanent.

Next, run the following command:

firewall-cmd --reload.

Also make sure other network configurations do not block this port. Before starting the connector, you can test the connection with the following telnet command:

telnet 10.98.0.1 5672

where 10.98.0.1 is the IP address of the host where RabbitMQ is installed.

Registering the connector

After a connector has been started, it must be registered with OpenIAM so that it can receive messages that are being sent by the other services in OpenIAM. These messages will tell the connector what to do. Examples of messages include:

• find a user;
• create a user;
• reset a password.

To register a connector, go to: Webconsole -> Provisioning -> Connectors

You will see a list of connectors that have already been registered out-of-the-box. Unless you are working with a custom connector, your connector should already be registered on this list. To configure, click on the actions button next to the connector and you will see the screen below.

Make note of the value in the first Connector Queue as you will need to add this to the server side connector configuration as well.

Note: You can replace the queue name value with any unique alpha-numeric sequence with no spaces.

Adding the queue name to the connector configuration

To add the queue name of the connector configuration, follow the steps described below.

1. Copy start.sh file into connectors and call it [connector name]_start.sh
2. Open new start script file and add the following Java opts.

-Dorg.openiam.connector.queue=[Connector Queue]_Request
-Dorg.openiam.connector.queueResponseName=[Connector Queue]_Response

3. Copy a system service file /etc/systemd/system/openiam-connector\@.service into /etc/systemd/system/openiam-connector-[connector-name].service and change ExecStart property to point on new [connector name]_start.sh.
4. Start the connector.

The example for the connector is shown below.

A new Java opts will look as follows:

-Dorg.openiam.connector.queue=TestDb_Connector_0001_Request 
-Dorg.openiam.connector.queueResponseName=TestDb_Connector_0001_Response