Importing the security configuration

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This topic is shared by BAW, CP4BA. Last updated on 2025-03-13 12:15
If you exported the security configuration package file for a solution when you migrated the solution package, import the file after you deploy the solution in the target environment to apply the security settings to the solution.

About this task

The design of a solution includes implementing a security configuration to ensure that cases and case documents are visible and editable only by authorized users and groups. The security configuration can be defined in several ways:
  • The security configuration might be defined entirely by using the Case administration client to create a security configuration package.
  • The security configuration might be partially defined by using the Case administration client and partially defined by applying manual steps.
  • The security configuration might be entirely defined by manual steps without using the Case administration client.

When a solution is deployed into a test or production environment, the business analyst or solution developer often assists with designing the security configuration for the test or production environment. For assistance with configuring security, the solution administrator can also consult the customized migration and deployment instructions that were developed for migrating the solution application package.

If the Case administration client was used to implement the security configuration design, security configuration settings are stored in a security configuration package file. You can move this file from one environment to another by using the export and import security configurations in the Case administration client . For example, you can create and check your security configuration in a test environment, run the export security configuration, and then import the security configuration package file into production.

If you manually set up the security configuration for the solution, then you must manually reapply the security configuration in the target environment. You cannot use this procedure to import and apply the security configuration.

Procedure

To import the security configuration package file:

  1. Start the Case administration client.
    Enter the following URL in a browser:
    http://server:port/navigator/?desktop=bawadmin
    where server is the IBM® Content Navigator IP address or fully qualified server name, and
    port is the IBM Content Navigator port number.
  2. In the navigation tree in the left pane, select a design object store and click Solutions.
  3. On the Solutions page, click Actions > Import > Security Configuration, browse to the exported security configuration package file, and complete the steps.
  4. After you import the file, view the security configuration to ensure that it is correct for the target environment.
  5. Apply the security configuration to the deployed solution.