Installing and setting up the registration client for partners

Owned by Krishnan Rajagopalan
Last updated: May 23, 2021 by Rounak Nayak (Unlicensed)
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General Pre-requisites

Hardware

  1. Workstation: Windows 10 laptop or desktop with min. 8 GB RAM and about 50 GB free space on the hard disk

  2. The workstation should be TPM 2.0 enabled. This URL (click here) will guide you with the sequence of steps to check if your workstation is TPM enabled.

It is important that your workstation is TPM 2.0 enabled and not with any older version of TPM. If your workstation has an older version of TPM, like TPM 1.2, then you may have to upgrade your BIOS firmware to upgrade to TPM 2.0. You should contact your vendor in this respect if you are not aware on how to do this.

Software

  • Mock MDS - This will simulate biometric capture if you do not have real biometric devices with you.

  • TPM Utility - This is used for registering the workstation on which registration client would be executed.

  • JAVA - JAVA 11 installed and JAVA_HOME is in the PATH

Provide the workstation details

  1. Download and extract TPM utility as explained in README.txt from command prompt

  2. Download the files machine.csv and machine_h.csv file and fill in the details. Replace the variables in <> angle brackets with the actual value.

  3. Send the files machine.csv and machine_h.csv with your MOSIP contact.

  4. Your MOSIP contact your register your workstation on the designated MOSIP server and communicate the credentials for logging into the registration client back to you.

Running Mock MDS

  1. Download and extract the Mock MDS zip provided and execute run.bat

  2. Mock MDS will starting running and starting listening on a port between 4501 and 4600.

  3. If run successfully, you would see the following output

Ensure that Mock MDS is always running whenever you are running the registration client

Setting up the Registration Client  

  1. Download the registration client from  http://<mosip server URL>

  2. Set an environment user variable 'mosip.hostname' with value as <mosip server URL>. For example

    • mosip.hostname = <mosip server URL>

  3. Extract the registration client zip file and click on run.bat. Make sure that you have JAVA in your path.

  4. Login with the credentials provided to you