Review this topic if you plan to integrate Interchange with PassPort AM.
Interchange identifies itself to PassPort AM via values for four properties:
PassPort AM knows three of these values (name, version, group) when it imports the Interchange component security descriptor file (see Steps after installation). Upon importing the CSD file, PassPort AM assigns an instance name of default.
All four values within PassPort AM match those in Interchange's passportintegrationdefaults.xml file, which is generated during the Interchange installation. If the values do not match, Interchange cannot communicate with PassPort AM. The code below shows an example of a passportintegrationdefaults.xml file. This example shows that Interchange is integrated with PassPort AM only, not with PM and PS.
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If you were to integrate two instances of Interchange with PassPort AM, the second instance can have the same values for name, version and group, but it must have a different instance value. Before starting the server for the second instance, edit the instance value in its passportintegrationdefaults.xml file. In PassPort AM, add that instance value to the Interchange component. Do not import another CSD file if the name, version, and group of both instances are the same.
| Caution | Interchange reads passportintegrationdefaults.xml into the database only once, when the server is first started. This is why you must change the instance value in the file before the server is started the first time. |
You may want to integrate two instances when, for example, you want separate installations of Interchange for testing and production. If Interchange runs in a cluster on multiple computers, the instance value for the entire cluster is the same.
If Interchange is integrated with PM and PS as well as AM, multiple instances of Interchange can use the same user ID and password to connect to PM and PS.
The passportintegrationdefaults.xml file is at <install directory>\conf.