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Visitor Service: FIPS Algorithm Policy Check

The document provides instructions for installing and configuring the COSEC Visitor Service. It describes downloading and running the installation file, disabling the FIPS algorithm policy, selecting the Visitor Service checkbox during installation, and clicking Install. After installation is complete, the Visitor Service icon will be visible in the system tray. Settings like the IP address, master service address, ports and timeouts can be configured. The service will run until the admin database becomes unavailable, at which point it will stop after 24 hours by default.

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Visitor Service: FIPS Algorithm Policy Check

The document provides instructions for installing and configuring the COSEC Visitor Service. It describes downloading and running the installation file, disabling the FIPS algorithm policy, selecting the Visitor Service checkbox during installation, and clicking Install. After installation is complete, the Visitor Service icon will be visible in the system tray. Settings like the IP address, master service address, ports and timeouts can be configured. The service will run until the admin database becomes unavailable, at which point it will stop after 24 hours by default.

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Visitor Service

To install VMS Service, click on Application Setup from the COSEC Application setup folder.

FIPS Algorithm Policy Check


To Install COSEC Visitor Service; the FIPS Algorithm Flag must be disabled. If the FIPS Algorithm flag is enabled
then following pop up will appear while installing the setup.

To disable FIPS Algorithm policy go to Registry Editor by typing regedit from the start menu of your computer.

Then go to the path:


Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FipsAlgorithmPolicy.

Now you can disable the FIPS Algorithm policy. Then Reset IIS Server and install the setup.

Click on Install and select Custom Installation.

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Select COSEC VMS Service checkbox. Click Next to install the setup.

The Confirmation window appears. Click Install to proceed with the Installation.

The Installation process is shown as below.

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VMS Service will be active and running only if Master service is running.

After the successful installation of COSEC VMS Service, “Installation Complete” window will be shown as below.
Then click to Exit the window.

After the Installation, you can start the COSEC Visitor Service Application by browsing the folder from All
Programs> Matrix> COSEC > COSEC Visitor Service.

When the Visitor Service is started, an icon will be visible in the system tray as shown below. Then Right click on
icon to configure the settings and start the service.

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If the service entry is not found in general settings then service will self-register itself.

You can start/stop the service through the tray app.


You can store the Visitor service settings. see “Settings”
You can upgrade the version of Visitor service.
You can refresh status of the service.
You can view service assembly details about the product.
Click on Exit to close the Service Manager Tray window.

When service is running and Admin database loses connectivity or is unavailable then the service will keep
running for 24 hours by default after which it will be stopped.
The continuous max allowed hours for service is given as configurable tag in settings.xml file.

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Settings

IP Address: If the PC is having more than 1 Network interface cards, then you can select the IP address from drop
down list at which the service is to be started.
The IP Address of the interface type whose status is 'up' will be set as default value for all the service tray.

If none of the Network adapters are 'up' and if the services are in running state then they will still continue
running but the IP Address of the running service will get updated to 127.0.0.1 - Localhost.

You have to manually enable any of the Network adapters available on PC to see values in dropdown for
selection.

As the Windows10 PC boots up fast, so services will check and retry for the availability of assigned IP
address before finally moving to 127.0.0.1

If more than 1 interface type is up then the first interface and its IP Address fetched to be up will be
assigned to all the services on service startup after installation.

If the PC is on DHCP mode then on IP Address change for the PC the entry against every service will be
updated with the newly obtained IP Address.

Refresh IP List: The list of all network adapters whose status is 'up' will be updated in the list.

Master Service Address: Enter the IP Address or URL of the Master Service.
On Changing / Updating the Master Service Address, connection must be tested with the master service on click of
Test Connection button.

Click Test Connection to test the connection with Master service.

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Port Number: This shows the port number at which device will communicate with Visitor Service.

Secured Port Number: This shows the port number at which device will communicate with Visitor Service on SSL
mode.

Specify the Request time-out duration in seconds.

Specify the Response time-out duration in seconds.

Click Save button to save the settings.

Service Tray in multiple User login

When you log into your computer with different user other than Administrator who has installed COSEC; then
service tray will be launched in the new user login as well but tray tooltip messages and balloon messages will not
be shown to new user.
This new user will have rights to stop service, start service and make changes to the settings of service.

When you Exit from the Service Tray App manually then tray will not be launched for that particular windows login
session. When you log into windows session again, the service tray will be launched again.

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