Table of contents

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• How to create 
• Effect on Connector for selecting different execution component
  • Setting up with Service Account Token
    • How to generate Service Account Token
  • Setting up with AzureAD SignIn
• Test & Persist

Introduction

This guide walks you through setting up an ILAP Analytics connector with the available authentication systems. 

Prerequisites

Make sure you have these before starting to create connector in IA:

• Your user must have Setup Admin role to access connector settings
• Desktop Client needs to be installed on you machine and/or Autonomous Component needs to be set up for your tenant
• Authentication Details (Get this information from Tenant Admin)
• (Optional): Custom request headers required in the authentication process

How to create 

1. Access the IDE web application and navigate to Setup > Connectors
2. Click on the button +New Connector
   • A modal will appear having the following required fields:
     • Title, Host System, Execution component
       
3. Provide a meaningful title.
4. Select ILAP Analytics from Host System dropdown, which will populate the following fields in the modal 
   • Required: ILAP Analytics URL, Read & Write Batch Size, Authentication Type
   • Optional: Manage Custom Request Headers
5. Select the execution component, based on the selection different authentication type will be available. See next section to find out more about authentication types.
6. Lastly add details to all of the required fields and hit create. 
    

Please note each connector's URL must be unique otherwise error will be shown

Effect on Connector for selecting different execution component

Authentication types depend on the execution component you choose.

Selecting Desktop client as execution component provides the following options as authentication type

• Service Account Token
• AzureAd SignIn

While desktop client has more options to authenticate the connector, Autonomous Component provides only Service Account Token.

Setting up with Service Account Token

Here is the setting you need to configure, and they are shown with red numbers and described below:

Contact your Tenant Admin to get the details of the fields.

How to generate Service Account Token

Service Account Token resides in Tenant Admin > Clients > ILAP Analytics in the web application. Service tokens generated for ILAP Analytics clients by Tenant Admin. Here is the process of creating service token.

Navigating to the Client

Adding new token


Setting expiry of the token

Generated token

Setting up with AzureAD SignIn

Here is the setting you need to configure, and they are shown with red numbers and described below:

Contact your Tenant Admin to get the details of the fields.

Test & Persist

After creating the connector:

• For Desktop Client execution:

  • Open the IDE Desktop Client

  • Navigate to the Connectors tab

  • Click Test to verify connection

  • Click Persist to fetch schedules and host fields from P6

• For Autonomous Component execution:
  

  • Test is done periodically via a background job, but it can be also done using desktop client.

  • Alternatively: Go to Setup > Connectors in the web app, and open the newly created connector and click Persist to force retrieval of schedules and host fields from P6. After persisting, reload the page after a few minutes to verify the updated connector status. 
    
    

Checkout this article to find out more about test & persist