Force LG and Controller to check certificate for cummunication

  • KM03075073
  • 18-Jan-2018
  • 18-Jan-2018

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Summary

By default, LG doesn't check the certificate when communicating with Controller, how to force LG and Controller to check certificate for cummunication?

Answer

There are 2 solutions.

You can take the one you need or both.


Solution A: Enable two-way authentication check for both Controler and LG.
This solution can prevent the connection from the machines which do not have CA.
Steps(Both on LG and Controller machine):
1.Open m_agent_attribs.cfg (in <LR installer folder>\config)
2.Set ClientAuthentication="True" ServerAuthentication="Medium"
3.Restart magentproc.exe


Solution B: Enable SecurityModeOn.
This solution can prevent LR from opening none-LR processes.
Steps(Both on LG and Controller machine):
1.Open br_lnch_server.cfg (in <LR installer folder>\dat, <LR installer folder>\al_agent\dat, <LR installer folder>\launch_service\dat)
2.Set SecurityModeOn from 0 to 1
3.Restart magentproc.exe


Solution A is recommended.