Verifying the application data integrity and privacy configuration

Procedure

  1. Confirm that security is enabled:
    1. On the client side, open the api.client_host_name.log API log file under the current working directory from which you are running the client.
    2. Look for a success entry similar to this: 
      2013-10-24 17:14:57.349 GMT INFO [5344:139975043811104] platcomm.Router
- Successfully started TCPIPv4SSL communication driver, initialized
with SSL[CERTIFICATE=ENV:CERT,CIPHER-AES256-GCM-SHA384,PRIVATE_KEY=ENV:PKEY]
arguments and uses zero options.
  2. Confirm that authentication is enabled:
    1. On the client side, ensure that the API log level is set to DEBUG.
    2. Open the api.client_host_name.log API log file.
    3. Look for success entries similar to these: 
      2013-10-24 17:14:57.352 GMT DEBUG [5344:139975043811104]
api.base.DataManager - DataManager::initClientSide(): Authentication is
enabled between Client and SI.
…
2013-10-24 17:14:57.603 GMT DEBUG [5344:139974902150912]
api.base.DDTClientSideHandler - DDTClientSideHandler::Authenticate -
Authentication successful.

What to do next

After exporting the two environment variables, and verifying your configuration, run your IBM® Spectrum Symphony client, with the direct data transformer enabled, to use this feature.