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The Login dialog allows you to connect to an IceGrid registry and retrieve information about the nodes and servers associated with this registry. Use File > Login... or press the button to open the Login dialog:

 

Direct Connection

Select the Direct tab to connect directly to the IceGrid registry, that is, without going through an intermediary Glacier2 router. This is the most common type of login.

An IceGrid registry can support two forms of authentication:

Username and Password

The IceGrid registry authenticates IceGrid Admin using the provided username and password.

SSL Authentication

When you check Use SSL for authentication, the IceGrid registry uses SSL credentials to authenticate IceGrid Admin. The username and password are not used for this form of login.

The other fields in the Direct panel are:

Enable IceSSL

When checked, IceGrid Admin loads the IceSSL plugin. You need to load the IceSSL plugin in order to use "ssl" endpoints.

IceGrid Instance Name

The name of your IceGrid instance. This corresponds to the value of the IceGrid.InstanceName property of your IceGrid registry.

IceGrid Registry Endpoint(s)

The client endpoint(s) of your IceGrid registry, or registries if your deployment has several registry replicas. This corresponds to the value of the IceGrid.Registry.Client.Endpoints property (or IceGrid.Registry.Client.PublishedEndpoints, if set) of your IceGrid registry (or registries).

Connect to Master Registry

If you have a non-replicated IceGrid registry, checking or unchecking this box makes no difference.

When you have several IceGrid registry replicas, you may want to connect to a specific registry replica or to the Master registry. If you want to connect to a specific replica, enter the endpoint(s) of this specific replica in the IceGrid Registry Endpoint(s) field and leave this box unchecked. If you want to connect to the Master registry, enter the endpoint(s) of any replica in the IceGrid Registry Endpoint(s) field and check this box. Note that you can only update application definitions when you are connected to the Master registry.

Routed Connection

Select the Routed tab to connect to an IceGrid registry through a Glacier2 router. The fields are similar to the fields in the Direct tab, but an important difference: the target is a Glacier2 router, not an IceGrid registry.

 

 

A Glacier2 router can support two forms of authentication:

Username and Password

The router authenticates IceGrid Admin using the provided username and password.

SSL Authentication

When you check Use SSL for authentication, the router uses SSL credentials to authenticate IceGrid Admin. The username and password are not used for this form of login.

The other fields in the Routed panel are:

Enable IceSSL

When checked, IceGrid Admin loads the IceSSL plugin. You need to load the IceSSL plugin in order to use ssl endpoints.

Glacier2 Instance Name

The name of your Glacier2 instance. This corresponds to the value of the Glacier2.InstanceName property of your Glacier2 router.

Glacier2 Router Endpoint(s)

The client endpoint(s) of your router. This corresponds to the value of the Glacier2.Client.Endpoints property (or Glacier2.Client.PublishedEndpoints, if set) of your Glacier2 router.

A Glacier2 router can only give access to a specific IceGrid registry instance, even when this instance is part of set of replicated IceGrid registries. As a result, there is nothing equivalent to the Connect to Master Registry check-box in the Routed pane.

 

 

 


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