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Credentials Manager is an Apica ZebraTester plugin that extends the functionality of secure storage and retrieval of credentials or passwords using Apica’s ASM API.

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Installing the Credentials Manager Plugin

Step

Information

1. Mandatory: Create an Entry (a new custom dictionary)

First, create the encrypted credentials entry into Apica’s ASM API by running the jar version of the plugin from a command line to open GUI.

Code Block
java -jar CredentialsManager2UtilityTool_vXX.jar

Key:Value pair(s) will be created as a result.

Note

Up to 50 key:value pairs can be used for a single dictionary_key as long as the value doesn’t exceed 1000 characters. Credentials Manager 2 also supports long values over 1000 characters (e.g., private keys or certs) but will reduce the number of keys:value pairs that can be stored to around 5 entries.

2. Add the Credentials Manager plugin into ZebraTester

By adding the .class as a plugin to your ZebraTester Script and then passing in the ASM_API_Url, ASM_API_AuthTicket, dictionary_key, shared_secret, and key as an index parameter, you can fetch the encrypted value, which the plugin will decrypt at execution rather than having that value hard-coded into the script as plaintext.

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Input Parameter

Number

Name

Mandatory?

Assign From

1

Apica ASM API URL 

Yes

variable

2

Apica ASM API Auth Ticket 

Yes

variable

3

Dictionary Key 

Yes

variable

4

Shared Secret Key 

Yes

variable

5

Key (of value) 

Yes

variable

Output Parameter

Number

Name

Mandatory?

Extract To

1

Value (of Key)

Yes

[variable]

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CredentialsManager2UtilityTool_vXX.jar (Used from the GUI)

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