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Introduction to using UMRA COM in IIS

The functions of User Management Resource Administrator can be accessed through an internet browser by using UMRA COM object in IIS ASP pages.

In such an environment: 3 components are involved:

1. The internet browser that shows the web-pages and is used to enter input fields;
2. The IIS web-server to which the browser connects;
3. The UMRA Service, contacted by the UMRA COM objects contained on the ASP pages running on the IIS web-server.

As an example, consider a computer running Internet Information Services (IIS). One of the web sites maintained by IIS is used to create a user account with UMRA. To implement such an application, the web site contains ASP pages with UMRA COM objects to access the UMRA Service.

Figure 4: Example project to create a user account with UMRA using a browser.

When the end user enters the first, middle and last name and clicks the Create user button, the browser information is sent to Internet Information Services. The ASP page that processes the input from the browser creates an UMRA COM object. Through the interface functions of the COM object, the UMRA Service is contacted. The variables and values are initialized and the project is executed by the UMRA Service.

Figure 5: Sequence of steps of an UMRA application with UMRA COM on IIS. The ASP pages of the IIS web site contain UMRA COM objects that communicate with the UMRA Service.

In this chapter, the example shown is described in great detail for Windows 2003/2000. All files of the example project can be found at the following location:

.\Example Projects\Automation\ASP\CreateAccount

relative to the UMRA Console program directory.