CA Harvest Windows client UDP - User

[Jarus Bosman]

Hi,

As which user would a program run, when executed by a UDP on the local client machine? I'm getting errors about reading network shared files and updating local files in the c:\temp directory. My script works when I run it myself (i.e. not through Harvest as a UDP).

Kind regards,

Jarus

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Jarus Bosman
Senior Software Developer
State Information Technology Agency
South Africa
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[Balakrishna Shantamurthy]

HI Jarus,

Thanks for the question.

The script works when I run it by myself

Can you say here ,when you say myself .i.e you run the script through your user account on the machine.? (same user already defined in a LDAP server or some identity access provider like okta id.?

Who is the user logged into harvest and would execute the UDP.? Again is this user defined in LDAP or identity access provider.?

The user logged into harvest need to have access to the network shared files only then it would be possible to execute the script

Please let us know.

Regards,

Balakrishna

[Jarus Bosman]

Hi Balakrishna,

When I say myself, I mean I'm logged onto my PC with my domain user account on LDAP. I'm logged into Harvest using my Harvest account (not on LDAP).

1. How am I going to give a Harvest account access to the network shared files?
2. How am I going to give the Harvest user update access to my local directories?

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Jarus Bosman
Senior Software Developer
State Information Technology Agency
South Africa
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[Balakrishna Shantamurthy]

HI Jarus,

Harvest is an internal user to the harvest application. It cannot be given access to the network shared files and update access to the local directories.

Perhaps you can consider using mixed mode of authentication in harvest

Mixed authentication enables both internal users in harvest and external users defined on LDAP (ex: your domain account user) within harvest application

If you enable mixed authentication mode ,define or add your username in the harvest ,then same user you logged onto the machine is also a part of harvest application.

The user would have access to the network shared folders as per the requirement

Please review the below tech docops section for more details

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/business-management/harvest-scm/14-0/installing/install-ca-harvest-scm/install-ca-harvest-scm-on-windows/install-the-server.html#concept.dita_21e39b739d9a81745c2913e646409fe55432911a_HowtoPreparefortheOpenLDAPInstallation

Regards.

Balakrishna