SCP Installation and Configuration on Windows

This section describes how to install and configure SCP on Windows, for uploading offline usage data in on-premises isolated network.

On-premises Mode

For uploading usage data for the on-premises mode, SCP is installed as a service on the proxy machine. The SCP service and RMS License Manager need not be installed on the same machine. 

The topics included in this section are:

>Unzip the SCL Add-on Package

>(Optional) Specify the Path of the SCP Configuration File

>Configure SCP

•By Editing the SCP Configuration File

•By Using SCP Command-line Options

>Install SCP

>Start SCP

Unzip the SCL Add-on Package

Unzip the SCL Add-on package by using the password received in Thales order emails, to extract the Windows-specific package.

(Optional) Specify the Path of the SCP Configuration File

The default path of the SCP configuration file is <extractedfolder>\Redistributable\SentinelCloudPlugin (same as the SCP service). You can specify a different path for the SCP configuration file by using the SCP_CONFIG_FILEPATH_[vendor_alias] system-level environment variable.

The precedence of options for picking the SCP configuration file is:

>The configuration file path specified in the SCP_CONFIG_FILEPATH_[vendor_alias] system-level environment variable.

>The default configuration file path.

NOTE    

The SCP_CONFIG_FILEPATH_[vendor_alias] environment variable (if defined) has higher precedence than the application directory. The environment variable to pick the configuration file should be set under the system variables for the SCP service to run successfully.

Configure SCP

There are certain settings that you need to configure before installing and running SCP. There are two ways of configuring SCP on Windows:

>By editing the SCP configuration file

>By using the SCP command-line options

By Editing the SCP Configuration File

Open the SCP configuration file and modify the following elements applicable for on-premises deployment mode:

Element

Description

[Mandatory] YPSaddress

Specifies the URL of Directory Services (DS) which is received in emails from Thales.
For example:

https://demo-yps.com/YPServer
[Mandatory] UsageUploadMode

Specify the mode to upload the usage data. For on-premises deployment mode, it should be set to "offline_uploader".

NOTE   After modifying this element in SCP configuration file, execute sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -start command from the path where the SCP service is placed.
(Optional) LoggingSettings

Specifies the logging settings. By default, logging is enabled in error mode. For details on how to change the logging settings, refer to the section Configure Logging.
(Optional) ProxyMode

Specifies the proxy connection mode.

Element

Description

ProxyMode

Proxy connection mode. The possible values are:

>1: Indicates that the proxy is disabled. In this mode, no inputs are required.

NOTE   The licensed application will not connect to the cloud if the client machine is in a proxy environment and proxy settings for SCP are not defined.

>2: Refers to the manual proxy mode. In this mode, you need to manually set the proxy settings.

>3: Refers to the PAC-proxy mode. In this mode, proxy settings in the .pac (Proxy Auto-Configuration) file or WPAD (Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol) are automatically detected.

Manual Proxy Settings (ProxyMode value="2")

ProxyHost

Proxy host name or IP address.

ProxyPort

Port at which the proxy is running.

Proxy Credentials (when authentication is enabled in the proxy server)

ProxyUser

User name for the proxy authentication.

ProxyPassword

Proxy password for the proxy authentication.

PAC-Proxy Settings (ProxyMode value="3")
ProxyPAC value

Location of the .pac file will be used for proxy detection. This option takes the URL or hosted path of the .pac file (such as, "http://ProxyScriptHostUrl/proxy.pac") as input.

If ProxyPAC value is not set, and WPAD is defined on the client, then its settings are automatically detected. The proxy detection can be done using either DNS or DHCP discovery methods:

>DHCP has a higher priority than DNS. The WPAD-enabled client first uses DHCP to find a proxy server, and if the desired information is not obtained, DNS is used.

>If the wpad.dat file is not found or if a proxy is not detected while running wpad.dat, no error is returned. Instead, the client tries to connect in a manner similar to when the proxy is disabled (No Proxy).

A Note on Applying Updated SCP Configurations

If the SCP configuration file is updated while SCP is running, the application restart is required to apply the updated settings.

Configure UsageUploadMode

>Open the SCP configuration file and modify the following element:

<OfflineUsageSetting>
<UsageUploadMode value = "offline_uploader"/>
</OfflineUsageSetting>

NOTE   After modifying the SCP configuration file, you need to execute the following command from the path where the SCP service is placed:

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -start.

(Optional) Configure Logging

To change the logging settings, open the SCP configuration file and uncomment the LoggingSettings section and change the options as per the requirement. Values of these settings are mentioned in comments in the configuration file itself. For example, if logging needs to be changed from error mode to debug mode, LogLevel can be changed from ‘1’ to ‘2’.

<!--<LoggingSettings>
<Logging value ="1"/>
<LogLevel value ="1"/>
<LogFilePath value ="scp.log"/>
<LogFileMode value ="2"/>
<LogType value ="1"/>
</LoggingSettings>-->

Specify the name and path of the log file in the LogFilePath element. 

<LogFilePath value ="scp.log"/>

By default, the log file (.log) is created at the same location where SCP executable is placed.

To configure logging using command-line options, refer to the section SCP Command-line Options.

Install SCP

NOTE   Please note that Admin privileges are required to perform install/uninstall operations.

By using command-line, navigate to the following directory: <extractedfolder>\Redistributable\SentinelCloudPlugin .

To install the SCP service, use the following command:

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe –install

or

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -i   

or

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -installstart

NOTE    

>The installstart option should be used after the required configurations have been set in the SCP configuration file.  Otherwise, the required configurations (such as, ypsaddress) should be specified as input to the installstart option.

>To start SCP in offline mode, you need to either configure the offline mode in SCP configuration file or execute sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -is -mode "offline_uploader" command.

Start SCP

>To start SCP:

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe  -start -mode "offline_uploader"

or

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe  -start

NOTE   The above command is applicable only when OfflineUsageSetting is already uncommented in the SCP configuration file.

>To restart SCP:

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe  -restart -mode "offline_uploader"

>To stop SCP:

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe –stop

>To uninstall SCP:

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -remove

or

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -r

>To check whether SCP is running or not:

sntlcloudps_[vendor_alias].exe -status

For more details, refer to the section SCP Command-line Options.