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General enhancements

This topic lists general enhancements to RPA.

  • Sync with Management Console in Kapplets

  • File support in Kapplets

  • Confirmation message on Kapplets page

  • LDAP timeouts

  • Proxy settings for CEF in Docker

  • Terminal support added

  • Kerberos support added

  • Configuration to override default authentication schemes

  • Security enhancements

Sync with Management Console in Kapplets

The Kapplets, Templates, and Schedules pages in Kapplets now have a Sync with Management Console ↻ button. Click it to fetch the latest robots from Management Console.

File support in Kapplets

Kapplets now support .xlsm files as input.

Confirmation message on Kapplets page

When clicking Cancel for a running Kapplet, a confirmation message now appears.

LDAP timeouts

The two properties are added to login.xml that handle LDAP configuration.

Property
Description

connectTimeout

The timeout in milliseconds for connecting to the LDAP server.

readTimeout

The timeout in milliseconds for the LDAP response from the server after the initial connection is established with the server.

In Docker, configure the following environment variables:

  • LOGIN_LDAP_DIRECTORY_CONNECTTIMEOUT_<N>

  • LOGIN_LDAP_DIRECTORY_READTIMEOUT_<N> .

Proxy settings for CEF in Docker

It is now possible to configure proxy settings for CEF in Docker.

Refer to the README.md file for details.

Example:

  • SETTINGS_CLUSTER_COUNT=1

  • SETTINGS_CLUSTER_NAME_1=Production

  • SETTINGS_CLUSTER_PROXY_COUNT_1=1

  • SETTINGS_CLUSTER_PROXY_HOST_1_1=proxy-service.com

  • SETTINGS_CLUSTER_PROXY_PORT_1_1=8080

  • SETTINGS_CLUSTER_PROXY_USERNAME_1_1=test123

  • SETTINGS_CLUSTER_PROXY_PASSWORD_1_1=passwd123

Terminal support added

Support for IBM 3278-2 terminal mode emulation is added.

Kerberos support added

Kerberos Authentication support for kapowlock is added.

Configuration to override default authentication schemes

CEF authentication is implemented in part through the operating system built-in support, which can cause robots to behave differently when deployed on Windows and Linux hosts.

  • On Windows, authentication is delegated to Windows APIs.

  • On Linux, authentication is handled internally, yet the negotiate scheme is implemented through the GSSAPI libraries, if installed.

To make it possible to disable negotiate authentication, the list of permitted authentication schemes can be overridden in common.conf.


Setting

Description

cef.override.auth.schemes

Overrides the set of permitted authentication schemes. Set it to a comma-separate subset of the supported schemes, such as basic,digest,ntlm,negotiate.

If you remove negotiate from the list, CEF selects ntlm authentication, if both are advertised by the server.

cef.override.gssapi

Linux only

Overrides the GSSAPI library.

Set either to name or full path.

If this is set to a non-existing file, it disables GSSAPI support, which in turn disables support for the negotiate authentication.

Security enhancements

Tungsten Automation is committed to maintaining the highest levels of software security. To safeguard our applications and protect customer data, security enhancements are applied in every product release.

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