Common QPR Authentication

It is possible to configure a common authentication system between different QPR Suite product web clients (e.g. QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web Client and QPR Portal), so that linking from one product web client to the other can be done without the need of a separate login for the product that is the link target.

Configuring Common QPR Authentication

The configuration file Qpr.ProcessAnalyzer.Common.config is used for registering servers belonging to the common authentication server group. The servers can then share user sessions created for users.

To set up a common authentication server group:

1. Create or change usernames in both the source and target QPR products, so that the usernames are identical in both products.
2. Configure common authentication settings by adding the URL of the product where the linking is done from to the Qpr.ProcessAnalyzer.Common.config file of the target product. For example, to link between QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web Client and QPR Portal, do as follows:

• Add two groups, ServerGroupPA and ServerGroupMEA, to the Qpr.ProcessAnalyzer.Common.config file. Specify the QPR ProcessAnalyzer service URLs for ServerGroupPA and the QPR Portal service URLs for ServerGroupMEA. See example below:

<setting name="ServerGroupPA" serializeAs="Xml">
                <value>
                    <ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
                        <string>http://pa1.qpr.com</string>
                        <string>http://pa2.qpr.com</string>
                    </ArrayOfString>
                </value>
            </setting>
            <setting name="ServerGroupMEA" serializeAs="Xml">
                <value>
                    <ArrayOfString xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
                        <string>http://mea1.qpr.com</string>
                        <string>http://mea2.qpr.com</string>
                    </ArrayOfString>
                </value>
            </setting>

Linking between Web Clients

Common QPR authentication enables opening links, such as QPR ProcessAnalyzer Web Client bookmarks in QPR Portal, without additional authentication. To do this, append a "&xsessionid=<#sessionid>" parameter to the end of the link URL. For example: http://pa.qpr.com/#bookmark=<bookmarkId>&sessionid=<sessionid>
Now when you are logged into QPR Portal, you can open the linked bookmark without additional authentication.