Identity Portal can not work when WSS Username Token authentication

Products

• CA Identity Suite
• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Portal

Issue/Introduction

Identity Manager (IM) supports "WSS Username Token (Password Text)" authentication for Web Services (TEWS) calls.

Identity Portal can not work when WSS Username Token authentication is selected in Identity Manager's Web Services properties

Environment

Release : 14.4.x

Component : Identity Manager, Identity Portal

Resolution

No. As this article is written, Identity Portal currently does *not* support "WSS Username Token (Password Text)" authentication. If "WSS Username Token (Password Text)" is selected in IM's Web Services property page, then IM Connector in IP is unable to start.

If Identit Portal does support "WSS Username Token (Password Text)" in the future, it should have WSS related parameter page in the IM Connector setup pages. So it cannot use IP and, at the same time, "WSS Username Token (Password Text)" authentication for custom Web Services calls.

Additional Information

You have option to utilize "Siteminder Authentication" instead of "WSS Username Token (Password Text)" authentication.

See the below Identity Portal's document for more information.

 Identity Manager Security Settings