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<h1 class="topictitle1">Secure your agent environment</h1>
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<div><p>It is strongly recommended that you use Kerberos user and service
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principals to authenticate users, agent pools, and agent services to one another
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on or across a secure platform or distributed platform.</p>
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<div class="section"><p>Platform security can be turned on or off. If you choose to run
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on or across a platform that has security turned off, anyone can deregister
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or modify another person's agent descriptions. Anyone can change the capabilities
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or state of any agent. Anyone can remove or answer any requests, even if they
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are not their own. Agents can potentially take destructive actions when being
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used incorrectly or by the wrong user. To ensure that agents are used the
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way they were intended, security features have been added to the infrastructure
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of the platform.</p>
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<p>When security is turned on, agents and services will
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be able to authenticate and authorize every action that is taken on or across
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the platform. An agent can only deregister or alter its own agent description,
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an agent must authorize all answered requests and capability changes, and
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a certain authority level will be required to alter the state of an agent.
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The use of an agent can be limited to certain users and locations. When security
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is turned on, every action that occurs can be traced back to a known user
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so platform authentication and authorization can occur.</p>
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<p>If you choose
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to secure your agent platform, you can turn security on by changing the Security
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property to <span class="uicontrol">Security=on</span> in the <span class="uicontrol">able.preferences</span> file
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that defines your platform.</p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzahxagentkerberos.htm">Configure your platform to use Kerberos</a></strong><br />
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The intelligent agent platform uses Kerberos principals to authenticate users and services throughout the agent platform. Kerberos protocol, developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, allows a principal (a user or service) to prove its identity to another service within an insecure network.</li>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="rzahxagentsecurepref.htm">Configure platform security</a></strong><br />
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Before you begin, ensure that you have configured your Kerberos key distribution center (KDC).</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzahxagentsetup.htm" title="Before you can begin managing your agents with the Intelligent Agents console, you will need to configure your agents and agent services (the agent platform) to run on or across the systems in your environment. A secure environment requires Kerberos and additional platform configuration.">Set up your agent environment</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rzahxagentstartplatform.htm" title="After you define the agent platform and optionally secure your platform, you will need to start all the Java Virtual Machines associated with your agent services using iSeries CL commands.">Start the agent platform</a></div>
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<div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rzahxagentconfigure.htm" title="Provides a brief overview of the agent platform, and then provides detailed configuration steps for modifying the platform preferences file. Before you begin using the Intelligent Agents console in iSeries Navigator, you first need to configure the agent platform.">Configure your agent platform</a></div>
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