Authenticate installation overview – Support Center

Haventec Authenticate is available as on-premise or as a cloud demo solution. This manual describes how to install it on-premise.

The Haventec Authenticate on-premise solution consists of two applications:

Haventec Authenticate
This is the authentication service and it is in charge of the authentication of your users and their devices.
Haventec Console
This is a web app to administrate Haventec Authenticate.

Haventec Authenticate on-premise architecture

Both applications are provided as separate Docker images.

The Docker images are on a private Docker Hub repository and are not publicly available.

Haventec Console docker container architecture

Haventec Authenticate container architecture

Please contact us for further information about an on-premise solution and how to acquire Haventec Authenticate for your organisation.

Prerequisites

Database - The Haventec applications are stateless and store all persistent information into databases. Currently, we only support PostgreSQL , and we recommend version 9.6

Note: If you don't have any PostgreSQL DB, it is very easy to set up a PostgreSQL docker container from their official repository.
Docker - The docker images have been built with Docker Version 18.06.2. Please use a compatible Docker version.
Entropy - Haventec Authenticate requires a level of entropy above 2000 and a bandwidth of 20kB/s. We recommend to install the package rng-tools in the OS that runs the docker containers in order to provide entropy. You could test the entropy of your OS with the following commands.
Check entropy levels:
```
    cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
            
```
Check the entropy bandwidth:
```
    dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=10 iflag=fullblock
            
```
SMTP Mail Server - Haventec Console requires an email server in order to send activation tokens to users email addresses.