Role Extender Administration

The Role Extender translates business roles known to the Role Extender into more granular roles that are actually used for authorisation within CMP Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers.. The Role Extender takes a role to which access has been granted in the Identity Server and returns the full list of lower level roles that this maps to.

Deployment

The Role Extender executes in Spring Boot. For information on how to deploy the Role Extender, see the CMP Installation Guide.

Starting

To start the Role Extender service, use the following command:

sudo systemctl start role-extender

To restart the Role Extender service, use the following command:

sudo systemctl restart role-extender

Stopping

To stop the Role Extender service, use the following command:

sudo systemctl stop role-extender

Monitoring Status

To check the status of the Role Extender service, use the following command:

sudo systemctl status role-extender

Check the log file for any errors – sometimes the process is still running but not functioning.

Configuration

For a list of the properties that must be configured during installation and configuration, see the Role Extender Properties section of the CMP Installation Guide.

Logs

The Role Extender used the same log file as the Identity Server.