Technical Users
The technical users are a specific type of the EBX users that have not UI access and are solely meant to be used by the Metadata agent or another technical system.
You can access the list of your technical users by selecting the ‘Administration’ perspective and going to the ‘Technical Users’ section.
‘Technical Users’ table will appear. You can add a new user by clicking on the ‘Create record’ button above the table.
Creation screen will appear.
Following fields are available:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Login | This field is mandatory. The login of the user to create. It will be automatically prefixed with 'ebx-' after creation. |
| Password | This field is mandatory. Use button 'Generate' to create a password compliant with security requirements. This password is stored encrypted in EBX. Please, copy this password before saving the user to be able to provide it to the system for which the technical user is intended. |
| Description | Free text box to describe your technical user. You can indicate a purpose of it or any other information. |
| Associated profile | You can select a user profile to which associate this technical user. |
Once you have completed the creation of your technical user, click on the ‘Save and close’ button.
The system will automatically generate a JSON Web Token for this user. If this technical user will be associated with a Metadata Agent, you must copy-paste the JWT into Metadata Agent’s properties files, otherwise the communication between Metadata and your Metadata Agent won’t be allowed.
Please, note that JWT is valid for 60 days and will be automatically regenerated by TIBCO Cloud™ Metadata once expired.
When expired, you’ll get an expiration message on agent operations (harvesting, creating data sources from TDV, …) and the agent will ask to TIBCO Cloud™ Metadata to generate a new JWT Key.
If you get this expiration message, you’ll have to
- stop your agent.
- get the new JWT key from TIBCO Cloud™ Metadata.
- copy/paste into agent application.properties.
- restart the agent.