Active Roles Language Pack
Available for download from the One Identity Support Portal, the Active Roles Language Pack provides product localization for Active Roles. To enable localization, install the Language Pack on the machine(s) running the Active Roles Administration Service, Configuration Center, Console, or Web Interface components.
NOTE: You can install the Active Roles Language Pack on 64-bit operating systems only.
To install the Active Roles Language Pack
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From the One Identity Support Portal, download the Language Pack applicable to your Active Roles release. For more information on the system requirements, see the Active Roles Release Notes.
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Open the ISO or extract the ZIP archive, and run x64\ActiveRolesLanguagePack.msi.
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Follow the instructions of the installer.
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After the Language Pack is installed, restart the Active Roles Administration Service. To restart the Administration Service, open the Configuration Center, click Administration Service on the left pane, then either click Restart, or first click Stop and then Start.
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Reset Internet Information Services (IIS) for the Active Roles Web Interface. To do so, open the Windows Command Prompt, and run the iisreset command.
The Active Roles Language Pack supports the following languages:
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For the Active Roles Administration Service, Configuration Center, Console and components, the Language Pack provides support for German language.
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For the Active Roles Web Interface component, the Language Pack provides support for the following languages:
For Active Roles 8.1.3, the Active Roles Language Pack has the following limitations:
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The Active Roles documentation and the built-in help files are not translated, and are available only in English.
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If you use a Windows operating system set to German language on the machine running the Active Roles Administration Service, Configuration Center, Console and components, installing the Language Pack on that machine will switch the language of these components to German. If Windows is set to any other language, these Active Roles components will default to English.
- As the Administration Service will use the German localization on an operating system set to German language after installing the Language Pack, the Active Roles Web Interface will also show errors, messages and reports originating from the Administration Service component in German, regardless of the language selected for the Web Interface.
When the Active Roles Language Pack is installed on the machine(s) running the various Active Roles components, the configured language for the Active Roles Administration Service, Configuration Center, Console and is set within the Windows registry.
If you want to change the configured language of any of these components (for example, because of localization testing), modify the language value in the applicable registry entry of the respective Active Roles component.
To change the language of an Active Roles component in the Windows registry
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Open the Windows Registry Editor.
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Navigate to the language setting of the Active Roles component that you want to modify:
- Administration Service: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\One Identity\Active Roles\Configuration\Service\Language
- Configuration Center: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\One Identity\Active Roles\Configuration\ConfigCenter\Language
- Console: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\One Identity\Active Roles\Configuration\Console\Language
- : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\One Identity\Active Roles\Configuration\SyncService\Language
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Double-click the Language key, then under Value data, modify the string value.
TIP: The configured language is indicated with an ISO 639 language code and ISO 3166 subculture code pair. For example, German (Germany) is specified as de-DE, while English (United States) is specified as en-US.
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(Optional) If you changed the language of the Administration Service, restart it to apply your changes. To restart the Administration Service, open the Configuration Center, click Administration Service on the left pane, then either click Restart, or first click Stop and then Start.
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(Optional) If you changed the language of the Active Roles Console, the Configuration Center, or the , close and reopen them to apply your changes.