User manual MAPLESOFT MAPLE T.A. 5.0 SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE

[. . . ] 5. 0 System Administrator's Guide No part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by any means -- electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of the vendor. The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the agreement. [. . . ] In these cases you will see `Error listenerStart" messages in Tomcat's catalina. log, and very little else. To diagnose situations like this, it is helpful to remove the log4j jar file temporarily from <Tomcat>/webapps/mapleta/WEB-INF/lib. After that (and a Tomcat restart), Tomcat will usually log a great deal more information about the situation, helping problem diagnosis. 30 5 Implementing SSL Connections to Maple T. A. Configuring SSL is largely a Tomcat operation and has little to do with T. A. See for example http://tomcat. apache. org/tomcat-5. 5-doc/ssl-howto. html. It is possible to implement both features, either feature by itself, or neither. For information on authenticating via LDAP over SSL, see section 6. 8. 6 below. You may place it anywhere, but the <Tomcat> installation directory is a convenient and reasonable place. In the <Tomcat>\conf\server. xml file, make the following changes: a. Disable the 8080 (non-SSL) connector definition by surrounding it with XML comment tags. <!-<Connector port="8080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" /> --> 31 b. Enable the 8443 connector definition by removing the XML comment tags that surround it. <Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" keystoreFile="<keystore_path>" keystorePass="<keystore_password>" /> Provide <keystore_path> and <keystore_password> as appropriate. <keystore_path> may be an absolute path name or it may be relative to the <Tomcat> installation folder. In the <Tomcat>\webapps\mapleta\WEB-INF\web. xml file, make the following two changes: a. In the ForwardRequest servlet section, set the port to that specified in the SSL connector (by default, 8443 ­ see Step 3 above): <servlet> . . . <init-param> <param-name>port</param-name> <param-value>8443</param-value> </init-param> . . . In the same section (ForwardRequest servlet), add the following: 32 <init-param> <param-name>protocol</param-name> <param-value>https</param-value> </init-param> 5. Usernames and passwords are stored in an LDAP server, typically administered by your institution's IT department, and used throughout the institution. supports the LDAP standard and should be able to use any LDAP server implementation. For example, we have customers using OpenLDAP, Active Directory, Sun ONE Directory Server and Novell eDirectory. These servers are deployed on a variety of platforms including Linux, Sun OS, and Windows Server. 6. 2 Requirements for Maple T. A. If you cannot meet these requirements, you cannot integrate Maple T. A. 5. 0 with your LDAP: Requirement LDAP version Simple binding Maple T. A. [. . . ] Table answersheetitem answersheetitem_grade Use A record for each case of a student answering a question. A record for each question ("answersheetitem") graded. 51 assignment A record for each assignment (excluding external assignments). Includes name, instructor, inheritance information and a link to the course content in the records folder. An external assignment is one for which the question content is unknown ­ we only know question number and grades, as manually entered from external records. [. . . ]