Smart card configuration

When smart card authentication is enabled, users are required to provide a certificate when connecting. Once the user’s certificate is validated, the user is authenticated by the OpenText Application Quality Management server. Before enabling smart card authentication, ensure the following steps are completed:

The web server works over the HTTPS protocol. For details, see Configure Apache as a secure reverse proxy.
The web server is configured as a reverse proxy that requires a client certificate. For details, see Configure Apache to require a client certificate .
The web server is configured to pass certificate details to OpenText Application Quality Management. For details, see Configure the Apache SSL proxy server to work with Smart Card.

Note: For IIS, the above steps are described in Configure IIS as a secure reverse proxy and Configure IIS to require a client certificate.

Note: For non-interactive user communication, such as testing tools running on clients, you have obtained standard client certificates from your Certificate Authority (CA). Ensure that your OpenText Application Quality Management front-end web server trusts this CA. These certificates must be issued to a valid OpenText Application Quality Management user.

Note: For additional details on configuring smart card authentication, see this KB article.

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