Thanks for this nice and interesting video
Could you please recommend best practice in the following upload non-native Vault project to Vault scenario:
Nowadays we have a bunch of old projects outside Vault with the same folder structure than the ones we are nowadays checking in since we had Vault installed back in 2018. This means that under a parent folder for the project, both types have a folder for assemblies, a second for parts, and a third for drawings. The only difference in their file structure is a folder in the old projects where commercial pieces were being placed every time we needed it. In that way, the very same standard piece could be found in the same folder of those several old projects. At the present time, most of these parts are still valid in new projects, but since Vault has the chance to reuse recurrent pieces by building a library with them, we place them from a library folder tree into new assemblies.
If we would make up our mind to proceed to check-in most relevant non-vaulted projects into Vault to improve their reusability, we would find each time, an average of 500 occurrences from 80 standard pieces that nowadays keep the same name in the library and could be located by a more or less deep browsing. Estimation for an average of pieces that would find their names changed nowadays and need to be pointed manually in the library could round 150 occurrences from 30 different pieces each time.
Do you think Autoloader would prove in this scenario a better tool for this purpose than Vault Server Check-in project tool from Inventor file menu?
What would be the differences in doing that with one or the other way?
Can I still run Vault Basic client for my existing clients and switch over to Vault Pro when doing work for my new client? I found an old post on the www which basically states that it can be done, but just want to confirm that it is still the case.
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys. Key Vault service supports two types of containers: vaults and managed hardware security module(HSM) pools. Vaults support storing software and HSM-backed keys, secrets, and certificates. Managed HSM pools only support HSM-backed keys. See Azure Key Vault REST API overview for complete details.
Vault owner: A vault owner can create a key vault and gain full access and control over it. The vault owner can also set up auditing to log who accesses secrets and keys. Administrators can control the key lifecycle. They can roll to a new version of the key, back it up, and do related tasks.
Vault consumer: A vault consumer can perform actions on the assets inside the key vault when the vault owner grants the consumer access. The available actions depend on the permissions granted.
Anybody with an Azure subscription can create and use key vaults. Although Key Vault benefits developers and security administrators, it can be implemented and managed by an organization's administrator who manages other Azure services. For example, this administrator can sign in with an Azure subscription, create a vault for the organization in which to store keys, and then be responsible for operational tasks like these:
Vault Office is a separate product, which provides basic vaulting capabilities for non-CAD users. It enables single document check-in and check-out by way of the Vault web client and the add-in. All office data can be managed, including Word documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
I was playing around with a little Spring Boot application that uses Hashicorp Vault. I wanted to implement Basic Authentication and wondered if I could keep the users details in the vault. There will never be many users for this app perhaps 5 - 10 different users. As the vault is used for other things I wanted to avoid having to keep the users in a separate database somewhere.
When a user logins into this app it does a lookup for the provided username in the vault and compares the password provided (which is BCrypt encoded) with the encoded password string from the vault and if authenticated collects the Roles etc etc...
However, when I run the same test the authentication still takes approximately 370ms. Is my thinking totally wrong here? Shouldn't retrieving the user details from memory be faster than getting them from the vault directly? Have I got a problem somewhere else?
Then, I noticed that the customer had installed the Vault Basic client on a number of other machines, for admin and non-CAD users to access the vault, with an argument from the customer that Vault Basic is a non-licensed free piece of software. Which is why I decided to write this blog, as Vault Basic, is technically not free as its part of your Collection which you have paid for a license.
To install a vault client on a machine you need a qualified or licensed piece of CAD software, if you uninstall the qualified CAD product, you are no longer entitled to run Vault Basic on that machine. Even though Autodesk is not currently enforcing this with technology, it would still be a violation of the licensing agreement.
To just cover that point again, it is a breach of the licensing agreement to install the vault basic client on machines that do not have a valid license of CAD software, you are only entitled to install the Vault basic client on machines that have qualified and licensed pieces of software.
Vault Workgroup allows more users to gain access to the software. As Vault Workgroup and Professional have their licenses managed by a separate license manager, any number of non-engineering users can have access to the Vault interface. While the Vault interface may not give them too much to be done to the files within the Vault, they can still search, edit properties, and even copy design without the software being required. A common example of a non-engineering Workgroup user could be someone in a managerial role that would need to log into the Vault, review the changes to a WIP file, and then change the state of the document to a released state. Another example could be a purchasing user that might log into the vault to make property changes to files for costing, or any number of other values.
Vault Professional opens the Vault up to even more users by utilizing the Autodesk Thin Client to grant read-only access of released documents to places like the shop floor, or the sales department, where they may only need to view, measure, and print files. This does require some additional settings to be setup both on the server and the client side, but is typically very painless. Lastly, with Vault Professional, the Active Directory can be used as a means to create logins instead of having to create each user from scratch. This also assists in logging into the vault, as the user name and password are of the same window authentication. (I cannot tell you how many times, I have had to reset passwords in Vault Basic when the users forget it.)
You can play with design data anywhere, despite time restrictions. Vault mobile app helps you to keep working in travel time also.Optimize deployments and manage teamsModern authentication options help administrators to finish their tasks effectively.Some other benefits are
That also integrates with Autodesk Inventor Professional, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Electrical, Autodesk Revit, and Civil 3D products.In addition, this provides a secure, centralized repository for Autodesk Inventor files which can be accessed by authorized users worldwide. Who uses Vault?With Vault, engineers and designers can work more efficiently by collaborating on data from a central location. That speeds up product development time while also reducing errors!How to set up the Autodesk Vault?First, you need to install the network license manager.
Launch the vault server installation
Click Install Tool and Utilities
Accept the license agreement and click next
Check the network license manager
Click install
Part I describes how to configure a basic Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall system. Part I takes you from a new installation through the process of configuring the Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall components.
Spring Vault requires a token to authenticate Vault requests.See [vault.core.authentication] on details regarding authentication.The reactive client requires a non-blocking token supplier whose contract is definedin VaultTokenSupplier. Tokens can be static or obtained through adeclared authentication flow.Vault login should not occur on each authenticated Vault interaction butthe session token should be kept across a session. This aspect is handled by asession manager implementing ReactiveSessionManager, such as ReactiveLifecycleAwareSessionManager.
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