HAI Use Case: Administrator Logs into the Hyrax Admin Interface

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Description

The Administrator logs into the Hyrax Admin Interface.

Goal

Provide a secure login and session for Administrators to operate the Hyrax Admin Interface.

Summary

The Administrator uses a web browser to access the URL for the Hyrax Admin Interface. When accessed the server returns a secure authentication challenge. Once the Administrator has provided correct authentication credentials all subsequent interactions with the HAI are secure (encrypted) until the session times out or the Administrator logs off.

Actors

  • Administrator

Preconditions

The Administrator has access too, and authentication credentials for, a running Hyrax server.

Triggers

One or more of:

  • Hyrax needs re configuration.
  • Hyrax needs to be restarted.
  • The Administrator needs/wants to view the Hyrax logs.

Basic Flow

  1. The Administrator points their browser at the URL for their HAI.
  2. The HAI returns a secure page containing an authentication challenge.
  3. The Administrator enters their authentication credentials.
  4. The HAI Administrators credentials are recognized.
  5. From this point on all pages sent from the HAI to the Administrator are secured through encryption (https??)
  6. The HAI returns it's home page.

Alternate Flow

  1. The Administrator points their browser at the URL for their HAI.
  2. The HAI returns a secure page containing an authentication challenge.
  3. The Administrator enters their authentication credentials.
  4. The HAI Administrators credentials are NOT recognized.
  5. The HAI returns it's an authentication failure page.

Post Conditions

  1. The Administrator has an active session with the HAI which provides secure pages for controlling a Hyrax instance.

Activity Diagram

Here a diagram is given to show the flow of events that surrounds the use case.

Notes

There is always some piece of information that is required that has no other place to go. This is the place for that information.

Resources

In order to support the capabilities described in this Use Case, a set of resources must be available and/or configured. These resources include data and services, and the systems that offer them. This section will call out examples of these resources.


Resource Owner Description Availability Source System
name Organization that owns/ manages resource Short description of the resource How often the resource is available Name of system which provides resource