GO Workforce software installation guide
This article describes how to install the GO Workforce software.
Nexus GO Services delivery team will do the initial distribution of all required software to get the service up and running. The customer is responsible to keep up-to-date and to download the latest software clients as required.
Install Smart ID Desktop App
The Smart ID Desktop App is used for smart card encoding and virtual smart card creation on Windows (10 or later) devices.
Prerequisites
Go to Smart ID Desktop App requirements and interoperability for more information about prerequisites.
Step-by-step instruction
Installation options
Set installation options. For more information about installation options, see Install and upgrade Smart ID Desktop App.
Run the Metadata tool
To roll out customized settings to your users (example: logging options to be enabled), you must run the Metadata tool for Smart ID Desktop App. For more information, see Smart ID Desktop App metadata tool.
With the tool you can gather information about Smart ID Desktop App metadata for backup or in order to investigate issues with Smart ID Desktop App. The tool also allows you to easily modify Smart ID Desktop App settings. This can be used to customize Smart ID Desktop App settings directly with the app installation, or to restore it.
Prepare a json file to be imported by the Metadata tool:
Example: A json file which can be imported by the tool
CODE{ "AlwaysFlushLogFile": "true" "LogLevel": "Trace", }When the Smart ID Desktop App has been installed, run this command:
CODEmetadatatool.exe -i loglevel.json
Install Nexus Personal Desktop Client
Nexus Personal Desktop Client is only used in combination with JCOP3 and CardOS smart cards. This client is not required for Thales or YubiCo smart cards.
Prerequisites
Go to Personal Desktop Client requirements and interoperability for more information about prerequisites.
Step-by-step instruction
Installation options
Set installation options. For more information about installation options, see Install Personal Desktop Client.
Configure and install Nexus Personal Desktop Client
All files (iD2ppa.cfg, personal.cfg and pin.cer) will be provided by the GO Services delivery team.
Place iD2ppa.cfg into C:\Program Files (x86)\Personal\config
Also place iD2ppa.cfg into %appdata%\Personal\config
Place personal.cfg into C:\Program Files (x86)\Personal\config
Also place personal.cfg into %appdata%\Personal\config
Overwrite (if) any existing files.
Create a folder in C:\ called Nexus and then a sub-folder called Personal
Place pin.cer into C:\Nexus\Personal
Details in the provided files
The provided files include these changes:
Line 15 in iD2ppa.cfg is adapted to map the pin.cer directory (C:\Nexus\Personal)
Line 130 in iD2ppa.cfg is adapted to map trace logs to the directory C:\Nexus\Personal\logs
Line 14 and 15 in personal.cfg is adapted to include CacheValidity=0
Do not change these values without assistance of Nexus.
Install Nexus Smart ID Mobile App
For more information, see Get started with Smart ID Mobile App.
Prerequisites
Go to Smart ID Mobile App requirements and interoperability for more information about prerequisites.
Step-by-step instruction
For more information, see Smart ID Mobile App.
Third Party Applications
Disclaimer
These applications are not developed or issued by Nexus. For support and/or licensing questions, contact the responsible party. Nexus can only supply links to the supplier of the software.
Thales End-user tools
See https://supportportal.thalesgroup.com/csm .
If the Thales Smart Card minidrivers is not present in your OS catalogue for drivers, it can be downloaded on above mentioned website and manually distributed.
You can also download Thales SafeNet Authentication Client (SAC) software, but this is not required to use the smart cards in the Nexus solution.
Encoding instructions:
To encode MD830/930 and/or MD940 Smart Cards, the DLL 'IDPrimePKCS1164.dll', which is installed with SafeNet Authentication Client (SAC), must be present in C:\Windows\system32.
During installation of SAC, select Custom Installation during setup and select the following feature:
Core > IDPrime PKCS#11 (Core (IDPrime PKCS#11))
When that is installed, you can find the DLL file in the installation directory, and you can move it to the System32 directory mentioned above.
Optional: You can uninstall SAC and distribute the DLL file as required. The file is not available outside the installation client.
YubiKey End-user tools
For more information, see https://www.yubico.com/support/download/ .
To use YubiKey PIV, you must install the YubiKey Smart Card Minidriver.
Encoding of YubiKey PIV is done with Nexus Smart ID Desktop App