AdminHttpApplication (`admin.json`)

The AdminHttpApplication serves requests on the administrative route, such as the creation of routes and the collection of monitoring information. The administrative route and its subroutes are reserved for administration endpoints.

The configuration is loaded from a JSON-encoded file, expected at $HOME/.openig/config/admin.json. Objects configured in admin.json cannot be used by config.json or any IG routes.

Default objects

IG provides default objects in admin.json. To override a default object, configure an object with the same name in admin.json.

Configure default objects in admin.json and config.json seperately. An object configured in admin.json with the same name as an object configured in config.json is not the same object.

AuditService: Records no audit events. The default AuditService is NoOpAuditService. For more information, see NoOpAuditService.
CaptureDecorator: Captures requests and response messages. The default CaptureDecorator is named capture. For more information, see CaptureDecorator.
ClientHandler: Communicates with third-party services. For more information, see ClientHandler.
ForgeRockClientHandler: Sends ForgeRock Common Audit transaction IDs when communicating with protected applications. The default ForgeRockClientHandler is a Chain, composed of a TransactionIdOutboundFilter and a ClientHandler.
ProxyOptions: A proxy to which a ClientHandler or ReverseProxyHandler can submit requests, and an AmService can submit Websocket notifications. For more information, see ProxyOptions.
ReverseProxyHandler: Communicates with third-party services. For more information, see ReverseProxyHandler.
ScheduledExecutorService: Specifies the number of threads in a pool.
SecretsService: Manages a store of secrets from files, system properties, and environment variables, by using ForgeRock Commons Secrets Service. The default SecretsService is a SystemAndEnvSecretStore with the default configuration. For more information, see Secrets.
TemporaryStorage: Manages temporary buffers. For more information, see TemporaryStorage.
TimerDecorator: Records time spent within filters and handlers. The default TimerDecorator is named timer. For more information, see TimerDecorator.
TransactionIdOutboundFilter: Inserts the ID of a transaction into the header of a request.

Provided objects

IG creates the following objects when a filter with the name of the object is declared in admin.json:

"ApiProtectionFilter": A filter to protect administrative APIs on reserved routes. By default, only the loopback address can access reserved routes.

For an example that uses an ApiProtectionFilter, see Set up the UMA example. For information about reserved routes, see Reserved routes.
"MetricsProtectionFilter": A filter to protect the monitoring endpoints.

By default, the Prometheus Scrape Endpoint and Common REST Monitoring Endpoint are open and accessible; no special credentials or privileges are required to access the monitoring endpoints.

For an example that uses a MetricsProtectionFilter, see Protect monitoring endpoints.
"StudioProtectionFilter": A filter to protect the Studio endpoint when IG is running in development mode.

When IG is running in development mode, by default the Studio endpoint is open and accessible.

For an example that uses a StudioProtectionFilter, see Restricting access to Studio.

Usage

{
  "heap": [ object, ... ],
  "connectors": [ object, ... ],
  "vertx": object,
  "gatewayUnits": configuration expression<number>,
  "mode": configuration expression<enumeration>,
  "prefix": configuration expression<string>,
  "properties": object,
  "secrets": {
    "stores": [ SecretStore reference, ... ]
  },
  "temporaryDirectory": configuration expression<string>,
  "temporaryStorage": TemporaryStorage reference,
  "preserveOriginalQueryString": configuration expression<boolean>,
  "session": object,
  "streamingEnabled": configuration expression<boolean>
}

Properties

"heap": array of objects, optional

The heap object configuration, described in Heap Objects.

You can omit an empty array. If you only have one object in the heap, you can inline it as the handler value.

"connectors": array of objects, required

Supported only for IG in standalone mode.

Server port configuration, when IG is server-side.

When an application sends requests to IG, or requests services from IG, IG is acting as a server of the application (server-side), and the application is acting as a client.

{
  "connectors" : [
    {
      "port": [ configuration expression<number>, ... ],
      "tls": ServerTlsOptions reference,
      "vertx": object
    },
    {
      ...
    }
  ]
}

port: array of configuration expression<numbers>, required

One or more ports on which IG is connected. When more than one port is defined, IG is connected to each port.

tls: ServerTlsOptions reference, optional

Configure options for connections to TLS-protected endpoints, based on ServerTlsOptions. Define the object inline or in the heap.

Default: Connections to TLS-protected endpoints are not configured.

vertx: object, optional

Vert.x-specific configuration for this connector, where IG does not provide its own first-class configuration. Vert.x options are described in HttpServerOptions.

For properties where IG provides its own first-class configuration, Vert.x configuration options are disallowed, and the IG configuration option takes precedence over Vert.x options configured in vertx. Vert.x values are evaluated as configuration expressions.

The following Vert.x configuration options are disallowed server-side:

port
useAlpn
ssl
enabledCipherSuites
enabledSecureTransportProtocols
jdkSslEngineOptions
keyStoreOptions
openSslEngineOptions
pemKeyCertOptions
pemTrustOptions
pfxKeyCertOptions
pfxTrustOptions
trustStoreOptions

clientAuth

The following example configures Vert.x-specific options for the connection on 8080, and TLS options for the connection on 8443:

{
  "connectors": [{
    "port": 8080,
    "vertx": {
      "maxWebSocketFrameSize": 128000,
      "maxWebSocketMessageSize": 256000,
      "compressionLevel": 4,
      "maxHeaderSize": 16384
    }
  },
  {
    "port": 8443,
    "tls": "ServerTlsOptions-1"
  }]
}

vertx: object, optional

Supported only for IG in standalone mode. Vert.x-specific configuration used to more finely-tune Vert.x instances.

Vert.x values are evaluated as configuration expressions.

Use the Vert.x options described in VertxOptions, with the following exceptions:

metricsOptions: Not used
metricsEnabled: Enable Vertx metrics. Default: true.

For an example, see Monitoring Services.

IG proxies all WebSocket subprotocols by default. To proxy specific WebSocket subprotocols only, list them as follows:

"vertx": {
  "webSocketSubProtocols": ["v1.notifications.forgerock.org", ... ]
}

"gatewayUnits": configuration expression<number>, optional

Supported only for IG in standalone mode.

The number of parallel instances of IG to bind to an event loop. All instances listen on the same ports.

Default: The number of cores available to the JVM.

mode: configuration expression<enumeration>, optional

Set the IG mode to development or production. The value is not case-sensitive.

Development mode (mutable mode)

In development mode, by default all endpoints are open and accessible.

You can create, edit, and deploy routes through IG Studio, and manage routes through Common REST, without authentication or authorization.

Use development mode to evaluate or demo IG, or to develop configurations on a single instance. This mode is not suitable for production.

For information about how to switch to development mode, see Switching from production mode to development mode.

For information about restricting access to Studio in development mode, see Restricting access to Studio.
Production mode (immutable mode)

In production mode, the /routes endpoint is not exposed or accessible.

Studio is effectively disabled, and you cannot manage, list, or even read routes through Common REST.

By default, other endpoints, such as /share and api/info are exposed to the loopback address only. To change the default protection for specific endpoints, configure an ApiProtectionFilter in admin.json and add it to the IG configuration.

For information about how to switch to production mode, see Switching from development mode to production mode.

If mode is not set, the provided configuration token ig.run.mode can be resolved at startup to define the run mode.

Default: production

"prefix": configuration expression<string>, optional

The base of the route for administration requests. This route and its subroutes are reserved for administration endpoints.

Default: openig

"properties": object, optional

Configuration parameters declared as property variables for use in the configuration. See also Route properties.

Default: Null

"secrets": SecretStore reference, optional

This property is deprecated; use SecretsProvider instead. For more information, refer to Deprecation.

One or more secret stores, as defined in Secrets object and secret stores.

"temporaryDirectory": configuration expression<string>, optional

Directory containing temporary storage files.

Set this property to store temporary files in a different directory, for example:

{
   "temporaryDirectory": "/path/to/my-temporary-directory"
}

Default: $HOME/.openig/tmp (on Windows,appdata\OpenIG\OpenIG\tmp)

"temporaryStorage": TemporaryStorage reference, optional

The TemporaryStorage object to buffer content during processing.

Provide the name of a TemporaryStorage object defined in the heap, or an inline TemporaryStorage configuration object.

Incoming requests use the temporary storage buffer as follows:

For standalone mode only when streamingEnabled is false:
- The request is loaded into the IG storage defined in temporaryStorage, before it enters the chain.
- If the content length of a request is more than the buffer limit, IG returns an HTTP 413 Payload Too Large.
For web container mode:
- The request is loaded into the web container buffer, which is managed externally.
- IG does not access the web container buffer until a filter, handler, or other object tries to access the request body.
- At that point, IG transfers the content of the web container buffer to its own temporary storage.
- If the web container buffer is bigger than the IG temporary storage, a buffer exception occurs.

Default: Use the heap object named TemporaryStorage. Otherwise use an internally-created TemporaryStorage object that is named TemporaryStorage, and that uses default settings for a TemporaryStorage object.

"preserveOriginalQueryString": configuration expression<boolean>, optional

Process query strings in URLs, by applying or not applying a decode/encode process to the whole query string.

The following characters are disallowed in query string URL components: ", {, }, <, >, (space), and |. For more information about which query strings characters require encoding, see Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax.

true: Preserve query strings as they are presented.

Select this option if the query string must not change during processing, for example, in signature verification.

If a query string contains a disallowed character, the request produces a 400 Bad Request.
false: Tolerate disallowed characters in query string URL components, by applying a decode/encode process to the whole query string.

Select this option when a user agent or client produces query searches with disallowed characters. IG transparently encodes the disallowed characters before forwarding requests to the protected application.

Characters in query strings are transformed as follows:
- Allowed characters are not changed. For example, sep=a is not changed.
- Percent-encoded values are re-encoded when the decoded value is an allowed character. For example, sep=%27 is changed to sep=', because ' is an allowed character.
- Percent-encoded values are not changed when the decoded value is a disallowed character. For example, sep=%22 is not changed, because " is a disallowed character.
- Disallowed characters are encoded. For example, sep=", is changed to sep=%22, because " is a disallowed character.

Default: false

"session": object, optional

Supported only for IG in standalone mode.

Configures stateful sessions for IG in standalone mode. For information about IG sessions, see Sessions.

{
  "session": {
    "cookie": {
      "name": configuration expression<string>,
      "httpOnly": configuration expression<boolean>,
      "path": configuration expression<string>,
      "sameSite": configuration expression<enumeration>,
      "secure": configuration expression<boolean>,
    },
    "timeout": configuration expression<duration>
  }
}

"cookie": object, optional

The configuration of the cookie used to store the stateful session.

Default: The session cookie is treated as a host-based cookie.

"name": configuration expression<string>, optional

The session cookie name.

Default: IG_SESSIONID

"httpOnly": configuration expression<boolean>, optional

Flag to mitigate the risk of client-side scripts accessing protected session cookies.

Default: true

"path": configuration expression<string>, optional

The path protected by the session.

Set a path only if the user-agent is able to re-emit session cookies on the path. For example, to re-emit a session cookie on the path /home/cdsso, the user-agent must be able to access that path on its next hop.

Default: /.

"sameSite": configuration expression<enumeration>, optional

Options to manage the circumstance in which the session cookie is sent to the server. The following values are listed in order of strictness, with most strict first:

STRICT: Send the session cookie only if the request was initiated from the session cookie domain. Not case-sensitive. Use this value to reduce the risk of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
LAX: Send the session cookie only with GET requests in a first-party context, where the URL in the address bar matches the session cookie domain. Not case-sensitive. Use this value to reduce the risk of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
NONE: Send the session cookie whenever a request is made to the session cookie domain. With this setting, consider setting secure to true to prevent browsers from rejecting the session cookie. For more information, see SameSite cookies

Default: LAX

For CDSSO, set "sameSite":"none" and "secure":"true". For security reasons, many browsers require the connection used by the browser to be secure (HTTPS) for "sameSite":"none". Therefore, if the connection used by the browser is not secure (HTTP), the browser might not supply cookies with "sameSite":"none".

"secure": configuration expression<boolean>, optional

Flag to limit the scope of the session cookie to secure channels.

Set this flag only if the user-agent is able to re-emit session cookies over HTTPS on its next hop. For example, to re-emit a session cookie with the secure flag, the user-agent must be connected to its next hop by HTTPS.

Default: false

"timeout": configuration expression<duration>, optional

The duration after which idle sessions are automatically timed out.

The value must be above zero, and no greater than 3650 days (approximately 10 years). IG truncates the duration of longer values to 3650 days.

Default: 30 minutes

"streamingEnabled": configuration expression<boolean>, optional

Supported only for IG in standalone mode.

When true, the content of HTTP requests and responses is streamed; it is available for processing bit-by-bit, as soon as it is received.

When false, the content is buffered into the storage defined in temporaryStorage, and is available for processing after it has all been received.

When this property is true, consider the following requirements to prevent IG from blocking an executing thread to wait for streamed content:

Runtime expressions that consume streamed content must be written with # instead of $.

For more information, see runtime expression.
In scripts and Java extensions, never use a Promise blocking method, such as get(), getOrThrow(), or getOrThrowUninterruptibly(), to obtain the response.

For more information, see Scripts.

Default: false

Example configuration files

Default configuration

When your configuration does not include an admin.json file, the following admin.json is provided by default:

Standalone mode
Web container mode

{
  "prefix": "openig",
  "connectors": [
    { "port" : 8080 }
  ]
}

{
  "prefix": "openig",
  "connectors": [
    { "port" : 8080 }
  ]
}

Overriding the default ApiProtectionFilter

The following example shows an admin.json file configured to override the default ApiProtectionFilter that protects the reserved administrative route. This example is used in Set up the UMA example.

Standalone mode
Web container mode

{
  "prefix": "openig",
  "connectors": [
    { "port" : 8080 }
  ],
  "heap": [
    {
      "name": "ClientHandler",
      "type": "ClientHandler"
    },
    {
      "name": "ApiProtectionFilter",
      "type": "CorsFilter",
      "config": {
        "policies": [
          {
            "acceptedOrigins": [ "http://app.example.com:8081" ],
            "acceptedMethods": [ "GET", "POST", "DELETE" ],
            "acceptedHeaders": [ "Content-Type" ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "prefix": "openig",
  "heap": [
    {
      "name": "ClientHandler",
      "type": "ClientHandler"
    },
    {
      "name": "ApiProtectionFilter",
      "type": "CorsFilter",
      "config": {
        "policies": [
          {
            "acceptedOrigins": [ "http://app.example.com:8081" ],
            "acceptedMethods": [ "GET", "POST", "DELETE" ],
            "acceptedHeaders": [ "Content-Type" ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

More information

org.forgerock.openig.http.AdminHttpApplication

IG 7.2.0

AdminHttpApplication (admin.json)

Default objects

Provided objects

Usage

Properties

Example configuration files

Default configuration

Overriding the default ApiProtectionFilter

More information

AdminHttpApplication (`admin.json`)